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Ace Combat XCOM: Enemy Skies
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Introduction
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
It was once said that the sky could not fall.
Then it did, and it was said that the sky could not fall twice.
The heavens opened just a crack the first time.
"Now, we delegates of the International United Nations hereby resolve to ensure that the infinite heavens shall, now and forever, be the new horizon for our people!"
A single craft. It matched no known radar signature, manuevering with impossible agility. Its sleek, rounded form struck in the middle of the night, screaming across the borders of seventeen countries without even blinking.
Just as suddenly, it halted in air, vibrating as an ominous green glow gathered in the front of the craft.
A light flashed out.
"Sky Keeper respond! Sky Keeper!"
The green light impacts a plane. The pilot does not have time to scream before she is turned to so much ash.
The Flanker debris tumbles and disintegrates in a fiery ruin.
"Ascalon Squadron, cover the retreat!"
A green bolt lances out. The shot rockets past the flat underside of an F-22. As the bolt passes, the weapon bays open, launching two missiles in retort.
A blue light gathers at the tip of an obelisk. An alien transport ship has landed, unscathed, next to it. Alien fighters are parked around it. The command center has an officer order a notice, as aliens watch on.
"Unidentified aircraft, you are in violation of our airspace. Turn around or we will shoot you down."
"Why are they shooting at us?! Can't they see we're on their side?!"
"All units, retreat from hostile airspace!"
"My missile alert hasn't gone off at all, but my heart still feels like it'll explode any second!"
A sleek gunmetal gray F-22 rolls of the four man wing, each plane bearing a different paint scheme. Both tailfins on the lead plane prominently feature a claw making Three Strikes.
The other F-22 in formation bears a single line down one wing.
The F-14 is painted pitch-black.
The final F-15 is painted with a white body and blue wingtips.
"Phoenix Squadron, engage!"
"An interesting change of pace. Show me what you got, Squadron Leader!"
"These bastards have a weak point, I just know they do!"
"All planes, prepare for Stonehenge impact!"
Eight massive guns point upwards. Their bullets leave behind flashes of light and concentric rings. The eight impacts upon an airborne battleship flash a brilliant emerald over the desert fields of San Salvacion. The trails of missiles and green plasma fill the air.
"Now we're even. Scratch that. We're ahead now."
"D'you think those aliens give a damn about the borders from up here?"
In high altitude above earth, an asteroid splits and shatters, a thousand comets and meteorites sloughing off. Inside, the supermassive ship comes into focus, shivering in anticipation.
Four painted craft fly straight up. Their rounded profile and hint of a forward sweep slice through the air, as the glittering sea-green particles trail behind them. A blue light runs down the starfighters' shivering spines, as if waiting for a signal. The lights point towards the sea of stars high above.
"Unity Squadron, engage!"
Then it did, and it was said that the sky could not fall twice.
The heavens opened just a crack the first time.
"Now, we delegates of the International United Nations hereby resolve to ensure that the infinite heavens shall, now and forever, be the new horizon for our people!"
A single craft. It matched no known radar signature, manuevering with impossible agility. Its sleek, rounded form struck in the middle of the night, screaming across the borders of seventeen countries without even blinking.
Just as suddenly, it halted in air, vibrating as an ominous green glow gathered in the front of the craft.
A light flashed out.
"Sky Keeper respond! Sky Keeper!"
The green light impacts a plane. The pilot does not have time to scream before she is turned to so much ash.
The Flanker debris tumbles and disintegrates in a fiery ruin.
"Ascalon Squadron, cover the retreat!"
A green bolt lances out. The shot rockets past the flat underside of an F-22. As the bolt passes, the weapon bays open, launching two missiles in retort.
A blue light gathers at the tip of an obelisk. An alien transport ship has landed, unscathed, next to it. Alien fighters are parked around it. The command center has an officer order a notice, as aliens watch on.
"Unidentified aircraft, you are in violation of our airspace. Turn around or we will shoot you down."
"Why are they shooting at us?! Can't they see we're on their side?!"
"All units, retreat from hostile airspace!"
"My missile alert hasn't gone off at all, but my heart still feels like it'll explode any second!"
EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS
A sleek gunmetal gray F-22 rolls of the four man wing, each plane bearing a different paint scheme. Both tailfins on the lead plane prominently feature a claw making Three Strikes.
The other F-22 in formation bears a single line down one wing.
The F-14 is painted pitch-black.
The final F-15 is painted with a white body and blue wingtips.
"Phoenix Squadron, engage!"
"An interesting change of pace. Show me what you got, Squadron Leader!"
"These bastards have a weak point, I just know they do!"
STAND UP
"All planes, prepare for Stonehenge impact!"
Eight massive guns point upwards. Their bullets leave behind flashes of light and concentric rings. The eight impacts upon an airborne battleship flash a brilliant emerald over the desert fields of San Salvacion. The trails of missiles and green plasma fill the air.
LIFT YOUR EYES
"Now we're even. Scratch that. We're ahead now."
"D'you think those aliens give a damn about the borders from up here?"
In high altitude above earth, an asteroid splits and shatters, a thousand comets and meteorites sloughing off. Inside, the supermassive ship comes into focus, shivering in anticipation.
STRETCH YOUR HANDS
Four painted craft fly straight up. Their rounded profile and hint of a forward sweep slice through the air, as the glittering sea-green particles trail behind them. A blue light runs down the starfighters' shivering spines, as if waiting for a signal. The lights point towards the sea of stars high above.
"Unity Squadron, engage!"
GRASP YOUR HEAVEN
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IUN-PKF-XCOM Resources
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
IUN-PKF-XCOM Resources
Critical Statistics:
Total Industrial Capacity: 221,725 IC
Personnel: 1800
Base Locations: XCOM USEA, XCOM OSEA, XCOM ANEA, XCOM VERUSA
Overall Commander: Stephen Pulford
XCOM USEA:
Available Industrial Capacity: 106600 IC
Local Industrial Capacity: 9600 [Planes] IC
Personnel: 400
Airbases:
Selatapura Air Command (shared with Selatapura International Airport)
Fort Grays Island Base
Commander: Long Caster
Allied Units: Gunther Bay Emergency Home Defense
Artificial Wonder: International Space Elevator "Lighthouse".
Alien Assets:
0 Alien Fighters.
4x Alien Gunships.
3x Alien Bulb Ships.
5015x Alien Alloys.
Spare Aircraft:
4x Su-33 Flanker
1x Su-37 Terminator
1x F-15 Eagle
6x F-35 Lightning II
7x F-16 Fighting Falcon
5x F-18E/F Super Hornet
3x F-14X XCOM Hellcat II
3x Special Weapons: EMLs.
Selatapura Air Command Base:
Slots: 34/72
Defensibility: B
Airfield (3 Slots)
Barracks (6 Slots)
Hangars (4 Slots) [16/16 Aircraft] {HARDENED}
Storage (8 Slots) [48/48 Aircraft]
Research Labs (1 Slots) {HARDENED}
Engineering Bays (1 Slots) {HARDENED}
Command Center (2 Slots) {HARDENED}
Aerospace Factories (4 Slots)
Defenses: (5 Slots)
Fort Grays Airbase:
Slots: 15/18
Defensibility: C
Command Center (1 Slot)
Airfield (3 Slots)
Barracks (1 Slot)
Hangars (4 Slots) [14/16 Aircraft]
Storage (2 Slots) [11/12 Aircraft]
Docks (2 Slots) [Heavily Damaged]
Defenses: [2 Slots] [Heavily Damaged]
XCOM ANEA:
Available Industrial Capacity: 21,525 IC
Personnel: 250
Airbases:
Gracemeria Air Force Base
Bartolemeo Fortress
Squadrons:
Garuda Squadron
Salamander Squadron
Windhover Squadron
Commander: Raynard Ball
Allied Units: Republic of Emmeria's Armed Forces, Kingdom of Nordennavic's Armed Forces.
XCOM OSEA:
Available Industrial Capacity: 6500 IC
Personnel: ???
Airbases:
Oured Air Command??
Squadron:
Cyclops Squadron
Falco Squadron
Gryphus Squadron
Paladin Squadron
Commander: Kiara Crespo
Allied Units: Osean Self Defense Forces
XCOM VERUSA:
Available Industrial Capacity: 74500 IC
Personnel: 600
Airbases:
The Red Corridor
Squadron:
Albatross Squadron
Shabhaz Squadron
Razgriz Squadron
Commander: Anton Smolaresk
Allied Units: Yuktobanian Army, Verusa's Federal Armed Forces
XCOM USEA RESEARCH:
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Under this heading are the technologies developed by XCOM's Research and Development divisions, as well as potential projects for later adaptation.
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Under this subheading is the collection of all research related to aliens - alien biology, alien technology, and anything else.
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This section covers the basic research into aliens.
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Our foundational understanding of aliens contains far more questions that it does answers; nevertheless, as scientists, we must seek to answer these questions. What we do know is this: these aliens do not share a genetic history with us, they use materials technology beyond our ken, they have exhibited hostile tendencies, along with some degree of control, and that is all we know.
Unlocks: Alien Alloy Research, Fighter Analysis. -
Our first autopsy of an alien that we have confirmed to have killed has resulted in some disturbing conclusions. The first is the functional existence of some degree of telepathy both among aliens and among our personnel on base. The second was that these aliens exhibited far too little genetic variation to be natural; we found less expected variation than between close relatives in between species, let alone drawing from a population. The third was that these aliens were genetically distinct from the material found in alien fighters, indicating multiple species brought to war against us. As part of that, we suspect the machinery we found the aliens in to have some sort of effect, and that a combination of radio waves and magnetic fields have caused distress in some aliens.
Unlocks: Psi-Jamming Pod
Research Unlocks: Sectoid Framework, ???
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Our foundational understanding of aliens contains far more questions that it does answers; nevertheless, as scientists, we must seek to answer these questions. What we do know is this: these aliens do not share a genetic history with us, they use materials technology beyond our ken, they have exhibited hostile tendencies, along with some degree of control, and that is all we know.
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This section contains our research specifically into alien technologies.
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Alien Alloys are one of the aliens' most foundational materials, and for good reason; it is a stable metallic hydrogen alloy that is superconductive from subzero to thousand degree temperatures, it has a melting point likely in the thousands of degrees, an incredible propensity to vibrate, and an ultra-high impact strength. Unfortunately, these properties come with a corresponding weight, and a our efforts to determine tensile strength has found that it does not possess the same sort of ludicrous strength found elsewhere. Use on aircraft should be sparing, due to its strength-to-weight ratio being comparable to steel.
Unlocks Alien Alloy Utilization (Crude).
Unlocks Alien Alloy Fabrication. -
One of the greatest obstacles to our ability to utilize Alien Alloys is the crudeness of our shaping techniques; our only method to shape Alien Alloys at the moment is the bastard child of an induction furnace and an MRI, and as a result we are sharply limited in our ability to utilize this substance.
Unlocks: Alien Alloy Utilization (Industrial). -
Our analysis of the alien bulb ships reveals a set of strange machinery that managed to mostly survive what looks like an alien power source explosion; our results of running a current through the strange machinery has resulted in lifting far more mass than the current strength should be able to lift.
Unlocks: ??? -
Research into the Sectoid Framework in the alien "bulb ships" has revealed that this machinery has the potential to vastly enhance psionic abilities - and has led to some frankly phenomenal findings. It is...astounding. For all that humanity has invested its efforts in searching outside, we have discovered an inner strength that few of us had fathomed possible.
Unlocks: Psi-Lab (Building)
Unlocks: Alien Control System Insight
Unlocks: ???
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Alien Alloys are one of the aliens' most foundational materials, and for good reason; it is a stable metallic hydrogen alloy that is superconductive from subzero to thousand degree temperatures, it has a melting point likely in the thousands of degrees, an incredible propensity to vibrate, and an ultra-high impact strength. Unfortunately, these properties come with a corresponding weight, and a our efforts to determine tensile strength has found that it does not possess the same sort of ludicrous strength found elsewhere. Use on aircraft should be sparing, due to its strength-to-weight ratio being comparable to steel.
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This section contains our analyses of alien craft.
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With our initial disassembly of the alien fighter craft, we've been able to discover how to properly strip these alien fighters for alloy. We've also found out that while our munitions were likely failing to penetrate the alien craft, all of the ships exhibited serious internal damage. Currently, we don't understand the principles behind many of the alien craft's internal machinery; however, the alien plasma cannon is likely the closest to discovery.
Unlocks: Fighter Salvage (Alloy)
Unlocks: ??? -
Comprehensive study of the alien bulb ships has revealed that the bulb ships are C&C vehicles without an obvious transmission vector; our current theories involve the Sectoids we found inside the Bulb Ships.
Unlocks: Strange Machinery -
Our study of the gunships, by contrast, have given us some real insight into how the alien plasma cannons function, especially since we now see some larger scale examples of their functionality. Some of the cannons are even functional enough for our own use; however, due to their extreme weight and power requirements, we can only use those for ground-based installations. However, we are still missing pieces in our understanding of how these plasma cannons function; our best guess is that we need more high-energy research.
Unlocks: Gun Ship Salvage (Cannon)
Unlocks: ???
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With our initial disassembly of the alien fighter craft, we've been able to discover how to properly strip these alien fighters for alloy. We've also found out that while our munitions were likely failing to penetrate the alien craft, all of the ships exhibited serious internal damage. Currently, we don't understand the principles behind many of the alien craft's internal machinery; however, the alien plasma cannon is likely the closest to discovery.
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This section covers the basic research into aliens.
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Under this subheading contains our research on aircraft designs.
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The F-14X, Charlie Burn's pride and glory. A modification of the F-14 that brings it into the supermaneuverable era, this plane boasts extremely strong capabilities across the board.
Unlocks F-14X XCOM HELLCAT II. -
The F-35 Lightning II series aircraft was designed for the modern battlefield, giving advanced stealth, avionics, and supermanueverability at a more affordable price point than the F-22, even with slightly lower theoretical dogfight performance. The F-35D Lightning III intends to adopt the lessons of the hypermanueverable aircraft XCOM has lying around to make the F-35 fully superior the F-22.
Unlocks F-35D Lightning III -
One thing that has hampered many of the 5th generation designs is a generally limited production run; there hasn't been the truly awe-inspiring production runs that models like the Mig-21 and F-4s enjoyed, resulting in less production opportunities. Maybe this represents an opportunity to optimize those production lines.
Unlocks: 5th Generation Aircraft cost reduction.
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The F-14X, Charlie Burn's pride and glory. A modification of the F-14 that brings it into the supermaneuverable era, this plane boasts extremely strong capabilities across the board.
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This subheading contains our research into high-energy particle research.
MAGNETIC ACCELERATORS {COMPLETE} CYCLONIC ACCELERATORS {COMPLETE} TOROIDAL ENERGY STORAGE CYCLONIC SHIELDING-
One of our foundational pieces to understand on an institutional level how to utilize magnetic fields to accelerate particles in a line within current technology - as well as how to partially utilize alien alloys.
Unlocks: Alien Alloy Utilization (Linear Accelerators)
Unlocks: Cyclonic Accelerators
Unlocks: Toroidal Energy Storage -
The study of Cyclonic Accelerators has enhanced our own engineering expertise to possess the theoretical framework for manipulating streams of nanoscale particles in orbits hundreds of meters across. Further refinement of this technology will lead to humanity's currently strongest defensive technology: the Active Protection System.
Unlocks: Cyclonic Shielding (Large)
Unlocks: Superconductive Accelerators -
Toroidal energy storage was an idea kicked around when the Alien Alloy's properties were fully considered, allowing for vastly higher amounts of electricity to be stored in smaller installations.
Unlocks: Distributed Electrical Network (Ultracapacitators)
Unlocks: ??? - Cyclonic Shielding is an application of Cyclonic Accelerators made most famous by the Arsenal Bird's APS systems; by forcibly orbiting fundamental particles almost a kilometer away from the point of origin in rapid orbits, hostile matter is destroyed and weaponized light is diffracted into harmless mist, while friendly power and missiles can exploit instantaneous gaps in coverage to leave the bubble.
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One of our foundational pieces to understand on an institutional level how to utilize magnetic fields to accelerate particles in a line within current technology - as well as how to partially utilize alien alloys.
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Utilizing magnetic accelerators to accelerate highly radioactive particles into each other, an exceptionally powerful explosion is created. With only an understanding of magnetic accelerators the resulting warhead is too big to be mounted on typical airborne missiles - however, with advances in particle and accelerator technology it may be possible to shrink the warhead.
NOTE: This technology has international regulations placed on its research, but thanks to a couple of grandfather clauses its usage is not restricted. Proceed with whatever measures you see fit.
Unlocks: Burst Cruise Missile! -
Our research into the alien weaponry has given us insights into how we can replicate the technology for our own use. While we still do not fully understand the basic principles behind the cannon's functionality, we believe that with some further research into high-energy physics we may be able to use and produce our own.
Unlocks: Plasma Cannon! -
While current testing indicates that our lasers do not appear to deal significant damage to the alien craft, we feel as though there may be some potential along the lines of using lasers to conduct an electrical discharge onto the alien fighters.
Unlocks: Electrolasers!
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Utilizing magnetic accelerators to accelerate highly radioactive particles into each other, an exceptionally powerful explosion is created. With only an understanding of magnetic accelerators the resulting warhead is too big to be mounted on typical airborne missiles - however, with advances in particle and accelerator technology it may be possible to shrink the warhead.
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Under this subheading is the collection of all research related to aliens - alien biology, alien technology, and anything else.
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Under this section is XCOM's Engineering Department, where the engineers bring the full potential of XCOM's Research to life, as well as building capability for XCOM as a whole.
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The field of manufacturing is a direct line of research for creating what XCOM research can dream up. Improvements to manufacturing carry manifest consequences both for XCOM and for the world as a whole.
BASIC INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT {COMPLETE} AEROSPACE FACTORY CONSTRUCTION {COMPLETE} AIRCRAFT SKUNKWORKS {COMPLETE} HARDENED STRUCTURES {COMPLETE} RESISTANT STRUCTURES MANUFACTURING OPTIMIZATION STREAMLINED CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES-
The fundamental group of engineering talents, this is the process to construct a pipeline for industrial capacity.
Unlocks: Build Industrial Capacity!
Unlocks: Aerospace Factory Construction
Unlocks: Hardened Structures.
Unlocks: ??? -
A branch of basic industrial development, in exchange for the versatility of the basic factory, the Aerospace Factory greatly increases speed of production of aircraft that XCOM possesses the blueprints for, as well as boosting Aircraft related Research purposes. Each additional 2000IC in Aerospace Factories qualifies as half a Research Lab for Aircraft-related research.
Unlocks: Build Industrial Capacity [Planes]!
Unlocks: Aircraft Skunkworks -
Aircraft Skunkworks are the next natural step in aerospace research; by giving scientists a dedicated space and area to specifically focus on aircraft research, aircraft research can be greatly boosted. It's a combination of placing manufacturing bays right next to the testing range, right next to top-of-the-line computing hardware. Research that would've taken ten weeks to crosscheck between labs scattered across continents can be completed in a ten-hour rapid iteration.
Unlocks: Build Aircraft Skunkworks.
Unlocks: ??? -
As part of XCOM VERUSA's gift to you that you somewhat embarassingly never quite managed to fully implement, your structures can be retrofitted for increased resistance to damage - future buildings will implement this automatically at no extra cost.
All new buildings automatically start with Light Damage Resistance.
Unlocks: Bunkers [1000 IC, 1 Slot, 1.5 Defenses, and Medium Damage Resistance]
Unlocks: Structural Hardening [200 IC per Slot, confers Light Damage Resistance]
Unlocks: Resistant Structures - While it would be simple to continue stacking defenses on the outside of buildings, this rapidly runs into difficulties with diminishing returns for increasing cost. Naturally, the next place to turn to is the internals of a building, which can be restructured for improved damage resistance.
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Normally, it would be the work of the world's best engineers backed by a team of hundreds to even try and optimize a production process, let alone many of them. A group of qualities which you just so happen to now possess.
Will boost IC production! -
One of the critical issues facing you is how to rapidly construct or refurbish buildings; as is, there are many delays in the commonly accepted construction methods, methods which your engineers think they can streamline.
Will reduce build times!
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The fundamental group of engineering talents, this is the process to construct a pipeline for industrial capacity.
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There exists a category of project so immense that construction is like nothing else in the world; those are called Megaprojects, and they frequently have rewards to match.
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The Lighthouse is one of the world's greatest landmarks; a bona-fide space elevator, with power generation capabilities way beyond geostationary orbit providing effectively unlimited power to the entire continent of Usea and beyond. It was damaged in the Lighthouse War, but you have helped to restore the Lighthouse to its former glory.
Electrical power restored for the Usean continent!
One-way signals established for the Usean continent!
Space travel reenabled as an option!
Unlocks: Usean Lighthouse Network - The existence of the Lighthouse as the largest radio tower in the world presents an easy way to beam communications to everyone all over Usea, and possibly the hemisphere. However, it is also so big that it is conceivable that everyone could also beam communications at the Lighthouse without being confused; with some reinforcement and additional hardware, this could prove to be the backbone of an information network that does not rely on satellites.
- Stonehenge is the quintessential superweapon. Everybody knows about it to some extent - it was one of the greatest anti-Ulysses weapons, repurposed by Erusea to take over the continent before being taken out of commission by Mobius One. You led an effort to protect the Osean army as it reused the last cannon for a shot at destroying one of the Arsenal Birds through its shield; to do the same thing to the aliens, you are planning to repair it and turn its guns to the heavens.
- The Dashau Resurgence Plan was a plan borne of desperation on multiple fronts; incoming waves of millions of refugees were an imminent crisis, and Selatapura was refusing to host them. Luckily for you, Dashau was a nearby city whose ports mostly dried up in favor of better ports, and as a result there lies much abandoned space in the city that you can repurpose to refurbish into temporary housing for the refugees.
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The Lighthouse is one of the world's greatest landmarks; a bona-fide space elevator, with power generation capabilities way beyond geostationary orbit providing effectively unlimited power to the entire continent of Usea and beyond. It was damaged in the Lighthouse War, but you have helped to restore the Lighthouse to its former glory.
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Under this heading goes all the projects that don't quite have a place to belong under the other schema; nevertheless, these are all projects that fall within Engineering's remit.
PROJECT NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH {COMPLETE} {REPEATABLE} PROJECT DOVE IMPROVED TRAINING SIMS IMPROVED FIGHTER AUTOCANNONS ELECTROTHERMAL CHEMICAL FIRING-
Project Neighborhood Watch is a short project that is meant to keep track of hostile capabilities from space without spending an excessive amount or reweaponizing space. In its maiden voyage, it overflew Belka multiple times before being completely totaled by the debris in low earth orbit; repeated visits may not achieve quite the same degree of success.
Unlocks: Neighborhood Watch Satellite [10 Engineer-Weeks to complete] - Project Dove is a project to deal with the satellite debris clogging up low earth orbit by reusing the Pilgrim One and a spare TLS lying around base after the TLS failed to deliver promising results; as a result, the Engineering teams have drafted a plan to slap the TLS onto the Pilgrim One and use it like the Arkbird cleaned up the Ulysses debris.
- Through some discussion with fighter pilots about the lacking qualities of the current training regimens, your engineers have a proposal on how they might be able to improve the training sims to be more useful for your pilots; however, that remains entirely theoretical as of this moment.
- One of the possible projects for your engineers to tackle was the question of how to improve fighter autocannons. While many fighter autocannons are naively "optimized" to a large degree, they are optimized for different threats than the alien fighters; therefore, it seems like it may be possible to build fighter autocannon that is optimized for anti-alien work.
- One idea that your engineers have hit upon, both from the new engineers and the inevitable conclusion upon examining the Stonehenge blueprints, is the idea of using electrothermal chemical firing instead of the traditional gunpowder charge for your large guns and EMLs. The advantage of this system is the potential for higher exit velocities and more consistent output; the downside is that it's cutting-edge status means that there are few suppliers of these type of rounds in the world, if you're not willing to build your own.
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Project Neighborhood Watch is a short project that is meant to keep track of hostile capabilities from space without spending an excessive amount or reweaponizing space. In its maiden voyage, it overflew Belka multiple times before being completely totaled by the debris in low earth orbit; repeated visits may not achieve quite the same degree of success.
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The field of manufacturing is a direct line of research for creating what XCOM research can dream up. Improvements to manufacturing carry manifest consequences both for XCOM and for the world as a whole.
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Under practices is the set of practices adopted by XCOM as an organization. Further projects will improve XCOM's functionality and ability to execute functions.
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Under this heading lies XCOM's tactical doctrinal thinking, developed off the battlefield so that doctrine can be easily implemented on the battlefield.
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Hammer and Nail Doctrine is the inital doctrine for XCOM's forces, revolving around long-range Nail troops launching long-range munitions while alien attention is occupied by close-range Hammer troops. This doctrine takes advantage of XCOM USEA's shockingly high concentration of aces as well as willingness to bet on EML technology.
Unlocks: Jackhammer Doctrine
Unlocks: Artillery Spotter Doctrine - Jackhammer Doctrine is a doctrinal evolution of Hammer and Nail Doctrine that evolves off of Hammer and Nail troops by including intermediaries of varying skills, to better protect the Nail troops as well as providing more support for Hammer troops. As the resulting shape looks like attacks in a continuous wave repeatedly, this doctrine has adopted "Jackhammer" as a codename.
- Building off of Hammer and Nail Doctrine, Spiderweb Doctrine utilizes the greater networking capabilities of the F-35 and F-14X to ensure complete battlefield vision at all times, allowing the Nail troops to fire to greater effect.
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Hammer and Nail Doctrine is the inital doctrine for XCOM's forces, revolving around long-range Nail troops launching long-range munitions while alien attention is occupied by close-range Hammer troops. This doctrine takes advantage of XCOM USEA's shockingly high concentration of aces as well as willingness to bet on EML technology.
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Organizational Practices are what keep XCOM as an organization functioning, as well as providing information for the Commanders to use.
BASIC NATIONAL UPDATES {COMPLETE} BASIC REPORTING {COMPLETE} ABBREVIATED REPORT {COMPLETE} REPORTING CHAIN {COMPLETE} BIDIRECTIONAL REPORTING MORALE REPORT {COMPLETE} BASIC DOCUMENTATION {COMPLETE}-
By delegating one person's tasks to keep track of national news and GDP, Commanders are provided with weekly updates about national industrial capacity as well as notable pieces of information.
Unlocks: Nation Screen.
Unlocks: Advanced National Updates. -
With the formalization of meeting times between Commanders and their subordinates, less time and energy has to be dedicated to each meeting to figure out what the Commander needs to know and when.
Unlocks: Status Report!
Unlocks: Abbreviated Report
Unlocks: Reporting Chain
Unlocks: Morale Report -
With great effort and focus the amount of topics that need to be covered in a meeting can be reduced even further, reducing the costs of Status Reports. The only slight issue is that with the increase in efficiency comes a price in exactly how much can be covered in a meeting. While it isn't a problem yet, this is something to keep an eye on.
Reduces Status Report cost. -
With the ability to give formalized reports comes the ability to spread this through an established chain of command, reducing the burden on the commander at the expense of the system as a whole.
Unlocks: Bidirectional Reporting -
Just as results must flow up to the commander and orders downwards, so too must questions or problems flow up the chain of command so that the commander can do what he can to fix the problem.
Reports issues that various teams are having in greater detail. -
One key component of management is figuring out how the various members of the organization are holding up. The Morale report includes reporting the morale of various members of XCOM, to better ensure that XCOM maintains capability well into the future.
Unlocks: Morale Descriptions!
Unlocks: Stress Relief [Action]
Unlocks: Arrange Amenities [Action] -
Of course, no organization has any real institutional knowledge if it does not record its own lessons. This documentation covers the research performed by this XCOM branch, to preserve its own knowledge.
Unlocks: Research History!
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By delegating one person's tasks to keep track of national news and GDP, Commanders are provided with weekly updates about national industrial capacity as well as notable pieces of information.
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Under this heading lies XCOM's tactical doctrinal thinking, developed off the battlefield so that doctrine can be easily implemented on the battlefield.
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IUN-PKF-XCOM Member Nations
IUN-PKF-XCOM Personnel
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
IUN-PKF-XCOM Personnel
Selatapura Air Force Base Pilots
Fort Grays Island Base Pilots
Memorial Wall
Think Tanks
Engineering Groups
ADMINISTRATION
Posting is open now.
Selatapura Air Force Base Pilots
- HIGH ALERT
- ACTIVE DUTY
- EQUIPMENT/PILOTS UNAVAILABLE
- INJURED
Fort Grays Island Base Pilots
- HIGH ALERT
- ACTIVE DUTY
- EQUIPMENT/PILOTS UNAVAILABLE
- INJURED
Memorial Wall
- XCOM USEA
- XCOM OSEA
- XCOM ANEA
- XCOM VERUSA
Think Tanks
- RESEARCH DIVISION ALPHA
- RESEARCH DIVISION BETA
- RESEARCH DIVISION GAMMA
- TRAINING AND TACTICS
Engineering Groups
- ENGINEERING DIVISION ABLE
- ENGINEERING DIVISION BAKER
- ENGINEERING DIVISION CHARLIE
ADMINISTRATION
- LOGISTICS DIVISION
- COMMAND STAFF
- HUMAN RESOURCES
- SEARCH AND RESCUE
- EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMINISTRATION
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Prologue, Mission One Briefing
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
Have you seen the night sky?
I mean, really seen it. Way out from the cities, where the light blocks out everything from the stars and all you can see are the famous ones. Way out into the country, to the point where you can't see anyone or civilization for miles. When you turn off all the lights, and wait for your eyes to adjust to what you see.
That faded band from horizon to horizon, the million billion points of light that make up the whole shape. The flickering as you try to convince yourself that you see the constellations, drawing the lines from star to star but losing your place as you drag your fingers across that infinite cosmos. Losing yourself in the sea of lights calling out, as if promising there was a better place somewhere in the heavens.
That was the high point of my childhood, those nights spent staring up into the sky. My parents never understood how much I loved the night sky; when they looked up, they always looked for something to hide under, as if they were looking for something. They'd tell me to find cover, to not look directly up into the sky or the sky demons would get me, as they told me to keep walking.
When I was six, I didn't understand. All I knew was that daytime was when we slept and hid way off the side of the road, and nighttime was when we walked down the road, always careful to watch for lights. Where we were going, I didn't know. We went to the cities a few times, but my parents always hurried me out of the cities soon after we heard the sniper fire. We passed through towns, picked up food, and cautiously eyed the bullet holes in the deserted buildings. We joined caravans at the first opportunity and abandoned them just as quickly when we heard rumbling. Through the wind, rain, and snow, we walked on.
That is, until I was eight and my family came across a different caravan.
The trucks all looked the same: blue body, white covering. We couldn't see anybody with guns, or food, but for some reason my parents ran towards that caravan and yelled as loudly as they could.
The caravan came to a stop, and out came two people with guns. Both wore a blue white uniform that all seemed to blend together, clean and pristine, from their brown boots to their blue and white berets with a gold star.
The people holding the guns spoke a different language than us; I couldn't understand anything. My parents were begging them; I think those people wearing berets understood, because suddenly the older woman turned towards the younger man and started talking quickly, wildly gesturing at us, while he started arguing just as loudly.
My parents grew desperate. They kept begging, crying, trying to speak in their mangled Emmerian that "army run from! Please! Please! Please!"
Finally, the older woman turned towards us, and asked in Estovakian:
"Want come?"
As of 0012 hours yesterday, the Comona Island Observatories recorded another likely asteroid event, shortly after the successful voyage of Pilgrim 1. Its mass was estimated to be at least on par with 1999XF04Ulysses, and with a much higher estimated impact velocity. At 0331 hours, the asteroid suddenly rapidly decelerated until 0521 hours, at which point the asteroid event was estimated to enter a high polar orbit. At 1320 hours yesterday, the asteroid released several other fragments, which reportedly entered the atmosphere at a high altitude and did not decay or burn up as predicted, but have rather entered what we are tentatively calling search patterns. As of 0458 hours today, IUN high command has concluded that there is no other reasonable possibility except that this asteroid is in fact an alien craft, and the other fragments are also alien craft. We are preparing a diplomatic response, but you are being put on standby in case of hostile response. In fact, there should be an overflight - muffled explosion - What?!
All units respond! "It's the San Marino, sir! The alien craft attacked the cargo ship!" "Strike on the Amber!" "We're running damage control on the Freyja, but the main boilers are -"
All units, scramble! This is not a drill! All units, scramble!
Mission Parameters: Shoot down all hostile UFOs.
Mission Assets:
Cyclops Squadron UNAVAILABLE DUE TO INJURIES
Operational Airspace: Selatapura Harbor
Enemies: Four (?) Unidentified Aircraft
[] Launch AWACS Long Caster (Risk of being shot down, better Radar coverage?)
[] Do Not Launch AWACS Long Caster (No risk of being shot down)
I mean, really seen it. Way out from the cities, where the light blocks out everything from the stars and all you can see are the famous ones. Way out into the country, to the point where you can't see anyone or civilization for miles. When you turn off all the lights, and wait for your eyes to adjust to what you see.
That faded band from horizon to horizon, the million billion points of light that make up the whole shape. The flickering as you try to convince yourself that you see the constellations, drawing the lines from star to star but losing your place as you drag your fingers across that infinite cosmos. Losing yourself in the sea of lights calling out, as if promising there was a better place somewhere in the heavens.
That was the high point of my childhood, those nights spent staring up into the sky. My parents never understood how much I loved the night sky; when they looked up, they always looked for something to hide under, as if they were looking for something. They'd tell me to find cover, to not look directly up into the sky or the sky demons would get me, as they told me to keep walking.
When I was six, I didn't understand. All I knew was that daytime was when we slept and hid way off the side of the road, and nighttime was when we walked down the road, always careful to watch for lights. Where we were going, I didn't know. We went to the cities a few times, but my parents always hurried me out of the cities soon after we heard the sniper fire. We passed through towns, picked up food, and cautiously eyed the bullet holes in the deserted buildings. We joined caravans at the first opportunity and abandoned them just as quickly when we heard rumbling. Through the wind, rain, and snow, we walked on.
That is, until I was eight and my family came across a different caravan.
The trucks all looked the same: blue body, white covering. We couldn't see anybody with guns, or food, but for some reason my parents ran towards that caravan and yelled as loudly as they could.
The caravan came to a stop, and out came two people with guns. Both wore a blue white uniform that all seemed to blend together, clean and pristine, from their brown boots to their blue and white berets with a gold star.
The people holding the guns spoke a different language than us; I couldn't understand anything. My parents were begging them; I think those people wearing berets understood, because suddenly the older woman turned towards the younger man and started talking quickly, wildly gesturing at us, while he started arguing just as loudly.
My parents grew desperate. They kept begging, crying, trying to speak in their mangled Emmerian that "army run from! Please! Please! Please!"
Finally, the older woman turned towards us, and asked in Estovakian:
"Want come?"
As of 0012 hours yesterday, the Comona Island Observatories recorded another likely asteroid event, shortly after the successful voyage of Pilgrim 1. Its mass was estimated to be at least on par with 1999XF04Ulysses, and with a much higher estimated impact velocity. At 0331 hours, the asteroid suddenly rapidly decelerated until 0521 hours, at which point the asteroid event was estimated to enter a high polar orbit. At 1320 hours yesterday, the asteroid released several other fragments, which reportedly entered the atmosphere at a high altitude and did not decay or burn up as predicted, but have rather entered what we are tentatively calling search patterns. As of 0458 hours today, IUN high command has concluded that there is no other reasonable possibility except that this asteroid is in fact an alien craft, and the other fragments are also alien craft. We are preparing a diplomatic response, but you are being put on standby in case of hostile response. In fact, there should be an overflight - muffled explosion - What?!
All units respond! "It's the San Marino, sir! The alien craft attacked the cargo ship!" "Strike on the Amber!" "We're running damage control on the Freyja, but the main boilers are -"
All units, scramble! This is not a drill! All units, scramble!
Mission Parameters: Shoot down all hostile UFOs.
Mission Assets:
Strider Squadron
Strider 1, "Trigger": F-22, MSL, GUN, QAAM
Strider 2, "Count": F-15, MSL, GUN, QAAM
Strider 3, "Jaeger": F-15, MSL, GUN, QAAM
Strider 4, "Huxian": F-15, MSL, GUN, QAAM
Strider 1, "Trigger": F-22, MSL, GUN, QAAM
Strider 2, "Count": F-15, MSL, GUN, QAAM
Strider 3, "Jaeger": F-15, MSL, GUN, QAAM
Strider 4, "Huxian": F-15, MSL, GUN, QAAM
Salamander Squadron
Salamander 1: F-18E/F, MSL, GUN
Salamander 4: F-18E/F, MSL, GUN
Salamander 1: F-18E/F, MSL, GUN
Salamander 4: F-18E/F, MSL, GUN
Rigel Squadron
Rigel 1: Mig 29A, MSL, GUN
Rigel 2: Mig 29A, MSL, GUN
Rigel 4: Mig 29A, MSL, GUN
Rigel 1: Mig 29A, MSL, GUN
Rigel 2: Mig 29A, MSL, GUN
Rigel 4: Mig 29A, MSL, GUN
Skoll Squadron
Skoll 1: Su-37, MSL, GUN
Skoll 4: Su-37, MSL, GUN
Skoll 1: Su-37, MSL, GUN
Skoll 4: Su-37, MSL, GUN
Voslage Squadron
Sol 2 "Wit": Su-30M2, MSL, GUN, QAAM
Sol 3 "Seymour": Su-30M2, MSL, GUN, QAAM
Sol 2 "Wit": Su-30M2, MSL, GUN, QAAM
Sol 3 "Seymour": Su-30M2, MSL, GUN, QAAM
Operational Airspace: Selatapura Harbor
Enemies: Four (?) Unidentified Aircraft
[] Launch AWACS Long Caster (Risk of being shot down, better Radar coverage?)
[] Do Not Launch AWACS Long Caster (No risk of being shot down)
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Mission One: Contact, Phase One
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
Trigger
The feel of the engines flexing as he pushed up and down on the throttle always brought the slightest of grins to Trigger's face. The slight twitches that he put into the sticks as he completed the final preflight checks felt just slightly less responsive than they were at the Lighthouse; Avril really didn't hold back on maintaining his wings, even after everything was supposed to be over.
Just how he liked it, honestly. On the ground, he was lowercase d-deaf, but in the air, that didn't matter. On the ground, he was impaired, but with his, he could soar like nobody else. Warming up his fingers one last time, roving over the instrument panel, he braced himself.
The throttle slammed forward, past the recommended takeoff speed and into the afterburners. The shock rattled him from his curled toes to his huge grin and shining eyes. Yes, this is what he lived for. He rocketed down the length of the runway and pulled up just as his landing gears were going to clip the trees; each torturous second that his landing gears retracted was another second that he'd have to watch his manuevering.
To distract himself, he looked through his HUD, and through the canopy's mirror-shine; he could barely see the specks of green hovering over the water, right where his radar marked out the indistinct targets.
Osean Destroyer
<<Damage critical! Everybody get to the lifeboats!>>
<<Damage critical! Everybody get to the lifeboats!>>
As his jet roared in, he began to pick out the smaller details: how they looked more like discs than planes, how certain parts of their craft shimmered like a green oil on water, and how the crafts shivered in an unbelievably tight turn before glowing green up and down the spine. Instinctively, Trigger knew what the aliens pilots were thinking.
One head-on pass, a deadly game of chicken.
He ignored the pilot to the far left and right. The angle was too far off to get it just right. He dismissed the one in the front as well, because his gut told him that the pilot in the front would be able to dodge. That left the second in the wing, just to the right of the presumed leader.
Out of habit, he flared his engine, dipping in and out of afterburners.
The other aliens in the wing tried to turn and shoot, but the ones on the ends couldn't yaw far enough and the one in the front didn't even try.
With one glance, Trigger dismissed them all and reduced his entire world to the straight line between him and his target.
The green light running down the spine of his opposite number grew and grew, as the distance between the two shrunk and shrunk. In that frozen instant, Trigger could feel everything on his plane, down to the very reflections of his own heartbeat. Then red reticle locked on and both pulled the trigger at the same time.
The alien bolt seemed to travel in slow motion, as his own missiles barely cleared the racks.
Trigger smiled viciously.
He slammed his ailerons down, hit the brakes, and immediately shifted his stick to roll and to pitch back up. His thumb switched to the machine gun as he pulled on the trigger for three heartbeats, green light flashing bare inches above the cockpit and down the spine of the aircraft. In the fourth heartbeat, his thumb shifted over to his special weapons pods, and two QAAMs rammed themselves into the alien craft just as they cleared the wing-mounted coverings.
But Trigger wasn't done yet. Slamming on the brakes as he pitched the plane further up, he let go of the throttle and looked at the one alien craft that had apparently gotten on his tail; the green light pulsed with a greater and greater urgency as the alien pulled impossible g-forces, vibrating with a greater and greater intensity as the tip of the plane pulled itself over to where Trigger was going to be.
As the light hit the point of no return, he let go of the throttle and airbrake for one beat.
The bright ball flashed, and Trigger instantly slammed the throttle, airbrake and stick. His aircraft defied aerodynamics to pull the nose of the airplane out of the way of the emerald death, whizzing past his undercarriage.
Count
<<Trigger, save some for the rest of us!>>
<<Trigger, save some for the rest of us!>>
Finally glancing around, Trigger took in the new situation. The one alien craft was gunning for him, while the two others were racing into the rest of the airforce.
Wit (Allied)
<<Looks like you get your wish after all, Count.>>
<<Looks like you get your wish after all, Count.>>
He could engage the aircraft chasing him, or he could go kill the rest at full afterburners.
It wasn't even a decision.
Trigger pitched his F-22 towards the plane chasing him, and other pilot obliged, aiming for another head-on pass. As the pent-up energy in the enemy craft reached the peak, Trigger suddenly slammed hard on the stick, throttle, and brakes, pitching himself in to pursue the aircraft chasing Jaeger, as the other engaged Count.
The green bolt from his pursuer hit the space that he had left a full two heartbeats ago, as the reticle on the alien craft finally turned red. Immediately, Trigger fired his entire weapons bay, missiles, QAAMs, and machine guns cutting five streaks in the air to the enemy.
The alien craft itself had not been idle. It was lined up for a joust with Jaeger, and by the time the missiles flew off Trigger's racks the shot had already left the alien barrel. However, Jaeger was not waiting to die either; just as the alien fired he sharply banked towards Count, allowing the alien projectile to pierce through his jet exhaust.
Then all of Trigger's shells impacted, and the second alien craft went down.
Salamander 1
<<Am I the only one feeling an intense sense of deja vu?>>
<<Am I the only one feeling an intense sense of deja vu?>>
Long Caster
"No, you're not the only one," Long Caster chuckled over the radio, chewing on a cold slice of bread. Then he immediately switched back to business. "We've got their weapons figured out," he said. "Check your HUDs; they should show the expected line of fire for the remaining craft."
His fingers drummed over the improvised command center; it wasn't like being in the plane, but it was safer, and that meant that the Food Airmobile would probably still be safe.
God, the crew's been getting to me, Long Caster thought, shaking his head and refocusing in on the radar.
The lines had shot across the screens, but fortunately it looked like most of their planes would pull through. As he thought that, one alien craft completely overshot Trigger's aircraft as Trigger led the entire squadron to launch every missile at the other alien craft; as usual, though, Trigger was the one to secure the kill.
"All pilots, there's just one craft remaining! Take it down and we can all go home early!" Long Caster couldn't help but radio, as he took down the downed alien's symbol on the HUD.
Count
AWACS Long Caster
<<All pilots, there's just one craft remaining! Take it down and we can all go home early!>>
<<All pilots, there's just one craft remaining! Take it down and we can all go home early!>>
Something screamed at Count's instincts, and if there was one thing Count was good at nowadays, it was listening to his instincts.
He tilted his head over to keep track of the final enemy, but nearly flicked over it; the alien craft was floating still in the air, unmoving.
Count drew his breath in sharply, but didn't react: how was he supposed to react to the enemy standing still as his instincts screamed at him?
"Something...something's wrong," he radioed.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Trigger had no such problems reacting, jetting towards the still craft at maximum afterburner.
Then the alien moved.
The disk suddenly began spinning around, filling his radar with the predicted firing lines. As Trigger approached, the spinning craft began to bank, before suddenly moving out like a thrown frisbee, arcing high and trailing a golden stream behind it. Just as suddenly, the craft moved at a ninety degree angle from it's previous path, before zagging sharply across the sky. Each second the red line of death flashed closer to Count, his hands gripped tighter and tighter.
Trigger tried to follow, but it was hopeless; the instant Trigger came close to getting a lock, the alien craft was already moving in a different direction. Count tried to follow as well, but couldn't even come anywhere close to the golden exhaust. Still, it was the only thing that he could think of.
Then the alien craft shot past Jaeger's aircraft. Jaeger tried turning to answer, but suddenly realized halfway through the turn that the line of death would intersect his path if he kept trying to match it.
Jaeger
<<I'm going home to my son, dammit!>>
<<I'm going home to my son, dammit!>>
He banked upwards, but the line approached still closer. In one last desperation move, Jaeger tried turning his plane away and ejecting; as the bolt impacted his plane he flew out of the canopy on his side, engaging the parachute as the smoke from his exploding F-15 began to clear.
Above him, Count let out a breath he didn't know he was holding.
Trigger
Trigger narrowed his eyes. The alien craft had made a mistake when it shot down Jaeger. Now it was time to punish it for entering a jousting position.
He threw open the throttle and accelerated for the alien craft.
As if recognizing the situation it was in, the alien made to bank instead of engaging Trigger, but Trigger banked in response as well, pulling right behind the alien craft's tail. It tried weaving back and forth, but neither shook Trigger off of its tail before Trigger fired, just as the alien craft was about to pull the fourth weave.
Suddenly, the alien craft entered a barrel roll, throwing the missiles off into irrelevance; gritting his teeth, Trigger let the twin QAAMs on his wings fly, impacting the alien craft but not putting it down.
Huxian
<<This really is like before...>>
<<This really is like before...>>
However, the alien craft seemed to know that it couldn't dodge these missiles, so it didn't even try; somehow, the aircraft decelerated at an impossible rate, causing Trigger to wildly overshoot. Before Trigger could pull his nose around, the flying saucer had alreadly launched off at a different angle, arcing behind one of the other planes flying around.
Rigel 1 (Allied)
<<Rigel 4, he's on your tail! Break! Break!>>
<<Rigel 4, he's on your tail! Break! Break!>>
Trigger could do nothing but watch helplessly through the clean cockpit as the alien appeared on Rigel 4's tail, green gathering along the spine.
Rigel 4 (Allied)
<<I can't shake him! He's - >>
The light impacted Rigel 4's cockpit, before penetrating straight through. For a split second, Trigger could see the gaping hole where the cockpit used to be on the Mig 29A.<<I can't shake him! He's - >>
Then the plane exploded, and the alien craft zoomed out.
Long Caster
It had happened so fast. Trigger had been picking off the alien craft one by one, as his once-pursuer was totally unable to stop Trigger from decimating their allies. Now, however, the tables had turned; now his once-pursuer was picking off the squadron one by one, and Trigger could only just barely hold his attention.
What are your orders?
[] Mission Update: All units, focus on survival!
[] Mission Update: Rigel, Salamander, Skoll sqaudrons retreat! All remaining units, cover them!
[] Mission Update: All units, retreat! Strider Squadron, cover the retreat!
[] Mission Update: All units, retreat! Trigger, cover them!
me: hmm today I will hype up the aliens by getting the ace to 1v1 trigger and have the rest go through your forces
Trigger: no
me: what do you mean no?
<<Long Caster: Trigger's taken down all of them! There's just the one!>>
me: wtf i had a plan
Trigger: ToO bAd
Jaeger: This is a story I'll tell my son
Skymount Lead: nO
Trigger: no
me: what do you mean no?
<<Long Caster: Trigger's taken down all of them! There's just the one!>>
me: wtf i had a plan
Trigger: ToO bAd
Jaeger: This is a story I'll tell my son
Skymount Lead: nO
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Mission One: Contact, Phase Two
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
| Mission Update |
<<Rigel, Salamander, Skoll Squadrons, retreat! All remaining units, cover them!>>
Count
Count could hear the sound of Trigger's engine flaring across his view, burning after the alien craft. The limping Rigel, Salamander, and Skoll wingmate pairs tried to turn away, but the alien craft was upon them in seconds.
"Like a wolf among sheep," Skoll 1 breathlessly whispered.
Count grit his teeth and pushed forward on the the throttle, as Trigger's orange exhaust inched further ahead.
In front of his eyes, the alien's golden exhaust cut through the formation, at first appearing behind the Salamander's Hornets before looping up and twisting down behind Rigel 2.
Both Trigger and Count were left way out of position to do anything; before Count could so much as slam on the stick, the sickly green pierced through Rigel 2's Mig-29A.
"Did Rigel 2 make it?!" Rigel 1 desperately cried.
"I see a parachute. She made it," Seymour reassured, as the alien craft flew straight into the Fulcrum's fireball.
Count slammed on the airbrakes, while Trigger leapt forward. When the alien craft revealed its new heading, Count was in a slightly better turning position than Trigger, as he tried to pull the nose of his slow Eagle up to match.
The shaking alien craft stopped quivering again, and the deadly green light built up. The line on the radar wasn't pointing at anyone, so -
The line swept out as the alien craft yawed hard, and suddenly Skoll 1 was flying right into the red zone.
"Skoll 1 -!" Skoll 4 shouted into the radio.
The shot through the center of the plane punctuated the shout.
"Skoll 1 - lost," Long Caster announced.
But Count's eyes didn't lie.
"The alien shakes when it comes out of a turn, but it can't shoot before it stops vibrating!" he shouted.
Trigger didn't respond in any way except by flexing his overpowered engines again.
This time, the alien pilot dived sharply, forcing Count and Trigger to slam up on the stick as well; Trigger's vector-manuevered thrusters allowing him to get into position faster than Count's standard nozzles ever would.
Neither plane, however, had anywhere close to the same amount of thrust that the alien craft had, immediately bouncing out of the 80 degree dive into an 80 degree power-climb.
The line on the radar twitches, and Rigel 1 tries to pitch his nose up and away. The shot lances out straight for his exhaust before he can clear the danger zone; the eject handle flies, the cockpit peels away, and Count can just barely see the small flame of the ejection seat pulling out of the Mig-29's fireball as he pulls his plane through the 9 Gs.
For one terrifying second, Count's vision goes entirely black. His Adam's apple rises, nausea suddenly attacks, and when the moment clears the alien craft just pulls hard left enough to break Trigger's perfect position behind it.
"They're too much, I can't get close!" Huxian cries over the radio.
"Then try!" Count snarled, slamming his throttle open.
But to no avail. Mockingly, the golden trail leapt right before going up and then coming down right Salamander 1's flight path.
Salamander 1 immediately banks his plane ninety degrees and pulls the eject lever; the shot pierces clean through the left wing tip to tip, but Salamander 1 has managed to escape unscathed.
"I don't understand!" Wit shouts wetly into the radio. "It spends energy like water! Inefficient movement after inefficient movement! But it's still - "
Finally, however, the alien exposes the slightest of openings. A moment's hesitation, a moment's thought about which target to pick next - and Trigger is already behind the target.
And then the moment was gone, and Count realizes that he had the golden opportunity if he just saw it before it slipped away. Trigger's weaponracks empty of missiles, but two miss as the alien once again pulls an impossible zigzag; only to be caught out again by the two follow-up missiles matching the alien move for move.
The two slam home, but again the alien craft makes use of the fireball to rapidly change direction, shaking wildly and sparking as the airframe looks nearly destroyed.
But it isn't destroyed, and the pilot of the alien aircraft still aims to kill.
The moment of shock and being caught twice allows the alien time to loop back and around, before coming just in the tail of Salamander 4.
Salamander 4 doesn't hesitate in pulling the lever as the line approaches; the bolt lances through the tailfins as Salamander 4 manages to safely pull out, before the Hornet explodes in a massive fireball.
"They're picking us off like flies..." Skoll 4 whispered.
The alien craft vectors in on the final retreating aircraft, but now Trigger knows which plane the target is; there's only so many attack angles the alien can take, so Trigger rides far behind Skoll 4.
The alien craft seems to recognize this, and rolls, dives, and climbs to try and fool them; but Count sees right through it.
Trigger does too, but the alien craft insists on making the final attack run.
As Trigger's missiles clear the rack, the alien craft comes to a complete halt.
Count gasped.
The two missiles impact, and the enemy ace dies without fanfare.
"Mission accomplished, all hostiles eliminated," Long Caster announces.
| Mission Accomplished |
Debriefing will have to wait for tomorrow; not all of the background work's been completed, so I need a day to finalize it.
In the meanwhile, tell me what you think!
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Mission One: Contact, Debriefing, Formation of the IUN-PKF-XCOM branch
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
"Everyone's here? Good."
"Mission accomplished, but if this is what we can expect from this war, I'm worried about the future."
"Sol, Rigel, Skoll squadrons, thanks for sortieing with us. You didn't have to defend this base with us."
"You'll understand why we have to leave, then?"
"Yes. Go ahead, we won't keep you."
"If you don't mind, I'll stay. I don't have a home to go back to."
"That's fine. Aside from that, good job, everyone. Now...now we prepare for another war.
"Dismissed."
Trigger gains 46/50 XP required to progress.
Count gains 13/35 XP required to progress.
Jaeger gains 5/20 XP required to progress.
Wit gains 3/35 XP required to progress.
Seymour gains 2/35 XP required to progress.
Salamander 1 gains 2/10 XP required to progress.
Salamander 4 gains 2/10 XP required to progress.
Huxian gains 1/20 XP required to progress.
Rigel 1 gains 1/10 XP required to progress.
Rigel 2 gains 1/10 XP required to progress.
Gains:
4x Alien Fighter Debris.
Losses:
1x F-15
2x F/A-18E/F
3x Mig 29A
1x Su-37
Rigel 4
Skoll 1
Long Caster leaned back and sighed.
Two more letters, addressed to people he didn't know anything about, telling them that their family member had died in defense of people they weren't sworn to protect.
Five ejections and two dead, out of twelve sortieing.
For one brief second, his face was held in a rictus between screaming and crying at the unfairness of it all. Just in case, he put his hand over his face. The base commander was out, and if he gave out, there wouldn't be anyone else.
Then he clicked his jaw back into place, moved his face back into a resting position, and switched over to continuing to run the Selatapura Harbor Air Force Base.
Urgent communications from IUN headquarters, a message pinged.
Long Caster blinked. Communications, not orders?
Urgent communications from IUN headquarters, the message pinged again.
Long Caster opened it.
A suited man, in a dark room, backlit by a searing blue light over his right shoulder appeared.
"Hello, Commander.
"In light of the recent extraterrestrial incursion, the International United Nations has convened to approve the creation of the Extraterrestrial Command within the IUN Peacekeeping Forces.
"You and the force which you oversee has been chosen to take part in this international initiative, to serve as our first, and quite possibly last, line of defense.
"Your efforts will have a considerable impact on humanity's future, Commander.
"We urge you to keep this in mind as you proceed.
"Attached to this message is the brief on the XCOM headquarters, the overall Commander, and a collection of information you may find useful in your endeavours.
"Good luck, Commander."
Where is XCOM HQ located?
[] [HQ] The Lighthouse
[] [HQ] Fortress Intolerance
[] [HQ] Ragno Fortress
[] [HQ] Cruik Fortress
[] [HQ] Oured Air Command
Who is in overall command?
[] [COM] Long Caster
[] [COM] North Point Chief of Airstaff Stephen Pulford
[] [COM] Compromise Candidate: OC, but has to justify why they're specifically a compromise candidate for IUN-PKF's XCOM Branch.
Long Caster is at 100 Focus for the week. Keeping his workload under 300 Focus will let him have plenty of free time. He can run up to 500 Focus without problem, and if need be, he might be able to push 1000 Focus. It's risky, though; going that hard that long might just end up being a huge amount of wasted effort.
Asking questions or for briefings will cost Focus, of which cost I will tell you how much it costs to answer.
General Actions will also cost Focus, significantly more than just asking questions or for briefings. General Actions are repeatable.
Vote for general Actions by plan, please.
General Actions:
-[] Order more planes (variable IC costs, 50 Focus)
--[] List specific aircraft
-[] Organize XCOM (100 Focus)
-[] Read Briefings (50 Focus)
--[] Target subjects
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
-[] Assess and repair assets (lmao that's not a thing Long Caster's good at)
-[] Delegate tasks (25 Focus)
For example, here are some sample plans:
[] Organize, Organize, Organize!
-[] Organize XCOM (100 Focus)
-[] Organize XCOM (100 Focus)
-[] Organize XCOM (100 Focus)
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
--[] Scientists
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
--[] Scientists
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
--[] Engineers
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
--[] Logisticians
-[] Read Briefings (50 Focus)
--[] Countries
-[] Delegate Tasks (25 Focus)
--[] Avril Mead: Assess and Repair assets
---[] Lighthouse
putting poor Long Caster at 575 Focus, into the red zone; or persay
[] Ace of Aces is good for a vacation, right?
no actions listed, trust that whatever Long Caster does is somehow useful to the XCOM force,
or, say:
[] Pilots, Planes, and Peacocks, in that order!
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
--[] Pilots
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
--[] Pilots
-[] Order more planes (variable IC costs, 50 Focus)
--[] 8x F-22 (IC costs: lots)
-[] Delegate tasks (25 Focus)
--[] Avril Mead: Assess and repair assets
[] Read Briefings (50 Focus)
[] Organize XCOM (100 Focus)
for a total of 375 Focus.
For those of you wondering why I would adopt such a godawful system, that's roughly how shitty your organization is right now. Organize and/or set up an actually functioning bureaucracy and you won't have to do this again.
"Mission accomplished, but if this is what we can expect from this war, I'm worried about the future."
"Sol, Rigel, Skoll squadrons, thanks for sortieing with us. You didn't have to defend this base with us."
"You'll understand why we have to leave, then?"
"Yes. Go ahead, we won't keep you."
"If you don't mind, I'll stay. I don't have a home to go back to."
"That's fine. Aside from that, good job, everyone. Now...now we prepare for another war.
"Dismissed."
Trigger gains 46/50 XP required to progress.
Count gains 13/35 XP required to progress.
Jaeger gains 5/20 XP required to progress.
Wit gains 3/35 XP required to progress.
Seymour gains 2/35 XP required to progress.
Salamander 1 gains 2/10 XP required to progress.
Salamander 4 gains 2/10 XP required to progress.
Huxian gains 1/20 XP required to progress.
Rigel 1 gains 1/10 XP required to progress.
Rigel 2 gains 1/10 XP required to progress.
Gains:
4x Alien Fighter Debris.
Losses:
1x F-15
2x F/A-18E/F
3x Mig 29A
1x Su-37
Rigel 4
Skoll 1
Long Caster leaned back and sighed.
Two more letters, addressed to people he didn't know anything about, telling them that their family member had died in defense of people they weren't sworn to protect.
Five ejections and two dead, out of twelve sortieing.
For one brief second, his face was held in a rictus between screaming and crying at the unfairness of it all. Just in case, he put his hand over his face. The base commander was out, and if he gave out, there wouldn't be anyone else.
Then he clicked his jaw back into place, moved his face back into a resting position, and switched over to continuing to run the Selatapura Harbor Air Force Base.
Urgent communications from IUN headquarters, a message pinged.
Long Caster blinked. Communications, not orders?
Urgent communications from IUN headquarters, the message pinged again.
Long Caster opened it.
A suited man, in a dark room, backlit by a searing blue light over his right shoulder appeared.
"Hello, Commander.
"In light of the recent extraterrestrial incursion, the International United Nations has convened to approve the creation of the Extraterrestrial Command within the IUN Peacekeeping Forces.
"You and the force which you oversee has been chosen to take part in this international initiative, to serve as our first, and quite possibly last, line of defense.
"Your efforts will have a considerable impact on humanity's future, Commander.
"We urge you to keep this in mind as you proceed.
"Attached to this message is the brief on the XCOM headquarters, the overall Commander, and a collection of information you may find useful in your endeavours.
"Good luck, Commander."
Where is XCOM HQ located?
[] [HQ] The Lighthouse
[] [HQ] Fortress Intolerance
[] [HQ] Ragno Fortress
[] [HQ] Cruik Fortress
[] [HQ] Oured Air Command
Who is in overall command?
[] [COM] Long Caster
[] [COM] North Point Chief of Airstaff Stephen Pulford
[] [COM] Compromise Candidate: OC, but has to justify why they're specifically a compromise candidate for IUN-PKF's XCOM Branch.
Long Caster is at 100 Focus for the week. Keeping his workload under 300 Focus will let him have plenty of free time. He can run up to 500 Focus without problem, and if need be, he might be able to push 1000 Focus. It's risky, though; going that hard that long might just end up being a huge amount of wasted effort.
Asking questions or for briefings will cost Focus, of which cost I will tell you how much it costs to answer.
General Actions will also cost Focus, significantly more than just asking questions or for briefings. General Actions are repeatable.
Vote for general Actions by plan, please.
General Actions:
-[] Order more planes (variable IC costs, 50 Focus)
--[] List specific aircraft
-[] Organize XCOM (100 Focus)
-[] Read Briefings (50 Focus)
--[] Target subjects
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
-[] Assess and repair assets (lmao that's not a thing Long Caster's good at)
-[] Delegate tasks (25 Focus)
For example, here are some sample plans:
[] Organize, Organize, Organize!
-[] Organize XCOM (100 Focus)
-[] Organize XCOM (100 Focus)
-[] Organize XCOM (100 Focus)
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
--[] Scientists
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
--[] Scientists
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
--[] Engineers
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
--[] Logisticians
-[] Read Briefings (50 Focus)
--[] Countries
-[] Delegate Tasks (25 Focus)
--[] Avril Mead: Assess and Repair assets
---[] Lighthouse
putting poor Long Caster at 575 Focus, into the red zone; or persay
[] Ace of Aces is good for a vacation, right?
no actions listed, trust that whatever Long Caster does is somehow useful to the XCOM force,
or, say:
[] Pilots, Planes, and Peacocks, in that order!
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
--[] Pilots
-[] Recruit Staff (25 Focus)
--[] Pilots
-[] Order more planes (variable IC costs, 50 Focus)
--[] 8x F-22 (IC costs: lots)
-[] Delegate tasks (25 Focus)
--[] Avril Mead: Assess and repair assets
[] Read Briefings (50 Focus)
[] Organize XCOM (100 Focus)
for a total of 375 Focus.
For those of you wondering why I would adopt such a godawful system, that's roughly how shitty your organization is right now. Organize and/or set up an actually functioning bureaucracy and you won't have to do this again.
IUN-PKF-XCOM Manufacturable Dogfight-Capable Aircraft As of January 1st, 2020
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
This is the 30 Focus briefing for dogfight-capable aircraft.
look upon my lists, ye mighty, and despair
also jfc I had to simulate creating an entire airforce from scratch to make this list i hope you're happy with it
it is 3 am, and I regret so damn much
Please. Nobody'd be crazy enough to go up against hypermanueverable alien craft in dedicated attackers, right?
*EML, PLSL, TLS, ADMM, and the MPBM are all experimental superlative weapon systems, so it should be noted that sometimes installing these weapon systems will cost more than the plane itself.
Voting is obviously extended for a day, at least.
Long Caster is at 130 Focus.
also jfc I had to simulate creating an entire airforce from scratch to make this list i hope you're happy with it
it is 3 am, and I regret so damn much
F-14D Super Tomcat
Cost: 1800 IC
Carrier-capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
LAAM
8AAM
QAAM
A large swing-wing carrier-capable aircraft. Designed to succeed the F-14A Tomcat, the F-14A Super Tomcat boasts better avionics, displays, and multi-targeting abilities. Its swing-wing gives it excellent dogfighting capabilities at both supersonic and subsonic speeds, while its powerful powerplant enables high-speed interceptions.
Cost: 1800 IC
Carrier-capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
LAAM
8AAM
QAAM
A large swing-wing carrier-capable aircraft. Designed to succeed the F-14A Tomcat, the F-14A Super Tomcat boasts better avionics, displays, and multi-targeting abilities. Its swing-wing gives it excellent dogfighting capabilities at both supersonic and subsonic speeds, while its powerful powerplant enables high-speed interceptions.
F/A-18C Hornet
Cost: 1400 IC
Carrier-capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
LASM
SAAM
SOD
A multirole carrier-borne aircraft. Designed around the limitations of carrier capacity, this plane is capable of engaging land, sea, and air targets.
Cost: 1400 IC
Carrier-capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
LASM
SAAM
SOD
A multirole carrier-borne aircraft. Designed around the limitations of carrier capacity, this plane is capable of engaging land, sea, and air targets.
Su-33 Flanker-D
Cost: 2000 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
HVAA
LASM
QAAM
RCL
EML*
A large carrier based aircraft. Based on the Su-27, this aircraft was designed for carrier operations. Its canards give this plane excellent turning characteristics, although a slight amount of speed was sacrificed. The main and tail wings can be folded up to increase the storage space available on an aircraft carrier.
Cost: 2000 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
HVAA
LASM
QAAM
RCL
EML*
A large carrier based aircraft. Based on the Su-27, this aircraft was designed for carrier operations. Its canards give this plane excellent turning characteristics, although a slight amount of speed was sacrificed. The main and tail wings can be folded up to increase the storage space available on an aircraft carrier.
MiG-29K Fulcrum-D
Cost: 1700 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
4AAM
QAAM
LASM
LAGM
GPB
A carrier-based version of the MiG-29M built initially to serve as a light fighter alongside the Su-33. Delayed for years, it was finally modernized and put into production to fill in the gap left by the Yuktobanian (and client states') aging Su-33 fleets. Perhaps in response to the Hornet's ability to do so, it is capable of 'buddy' refueling.
Cost: 1700 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
4AAM
QAAM
LASM
LAGM
GPB
A carrier-based version of the MiG-29M built initially to serve as a light fighter alongside the Su-33. Delayed for years, it was finally modernized and put into production to fill in the gap left by the Yuktobanian (and client states') aging Su-33 fleets. Perhaps in response to the Hornet's ability to do so, it is capable of 'buddy' refueling.
F/A-18F Super Hornet
Cost: 2400 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
QAAM
LASM
EML*
4AAM
SAAM
A carrier-based multirole aircraft. A successor to the F-18C Hornet, the F/A-18F boasts excellent performance at medium speeds and strong air-to-ground capabilities.
Cost: 2400 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
QAAM
LASM
EML*
4AAM
SAAM
A carrier-based multirole aircraft. A successor to the F-18C Hornet, the F/A-18F boasts excellent performance at medium speeds and strong air-to-ground capabilities.
F-35C Lightning II
Cost: 3000 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
SOD
4AAM
8AGM
SAAM
LASM
QAAM
A stealth-multirole aircraft. The F-35C is the naval variant, featuring longer folding wings, reinforced landing gears, and arresting hooks. It is designed to replace the F/A-18 line in its entirety.
Cost: 3000 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
SOD
4AAM
8AGM
SAAM
LASM
QAAM
A stealth-multirole aircraft. The F-35C is the naval variant, featuring longer folding wings, reinforced landing gears, and arresting hooks. It is designed to replace the F/A-18 line in its entirety.
X-02A Wyvern
Cost: 23000 IC
Carrier Capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
4AAM
6AAM
SOD
QAAM
4AGM
A carrier-capable fifth-generation fighter developed in Erusea. Development of the unique switchblade wing aircraft was fitful and stuttering, beginning in the 1980s but hampered by budget cuts, the Usean coup d'etat, and Ulysses. The program ultimately completed in the later stages of the Usean Continental War. After the war, efforts to fully mass-produce the X-02A were made, but eventually abandoned due to the staggering cost; at its most optimistic, the program projected affording 1 at the cost of 2 F-22s.
Cost: 23000 IC
Carrier Capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
4AAM
6AAM
SOD
QAAM
4AGM
A carrier-capable fifth-generation fighter developed in Erusea. Development of the unique switchblade wing aircraft was fitful and stuttering, beginning in the 1980s but hampered by budget cuts, the Usean coup d'etat, and Ulysses. The program ultimately completed in the later stages of the Usean Continental War. After the war, efforts to fully mass-produce the X-02A were made, but eventually abandoned due to the staggering cost; at its most optimistic, the program projected affording 1 at the cost of 2 F-22s.
X-02S Strike Wyvern
Cost: 20000 IC
Carrier Capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
4AAM
LASM
QAAM
EML*
A stealth fighter. Superlative in every respect, the cost broke Erusean will both times the Wyvern line was created; thus, it has never truly entered mass production and has always been an experimental fighter. There is little doubt, however, from pilots who have faced or used this aircraft, that it is absolutely worth its incredible price.
Cost: 20000 IC
Carrier Capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
4AAM
LASM
QAAM
EML*
A stealth fighter. Superlative in every respect, the cost broke Erusean will both times the Wyvern line was created; thus, it has never truly entered mass production and has always been an experimental fighter. There is little doubt, however, from pilots who have faced or used this aircraft, that it is absolutely worth its incredible price.
XFA-27 Scarface
Cost: 18000 IC
Carrier Capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
SOD
MSTM
ECM
XAGM
XMAA
ODMM
A stealth multirole aircraft. Developed as an experimental last resort, this plane boasts incredible manueverability and acceleration, courtesy of its all-moving tails, canards, nozzles, and ludicrously overpowered engines.
Cost: 18000 IC
Carrier Capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
SOD
MSTM
ECM
XAGM
XMAA
ODMM
A stealth multirole aircraft. Developed as an experimental last resort, this plane boasts incredible manueverability and acceleration, courtesy of its all-moving tails, canards, nozzles, and ludicrously overpowered engines.
CFA-44 Nosferatu
Cost: 15000 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
ADMM**
EML**
ECM
A stealth carrier-based air supremacy fighter. Equipped with experimental weaponry attached to an extremely maneuverable airframes, comprehensive electronic suite, and unbelievably powerful engines, the only true downside is its low stability.
Cost: 15000 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
ADMM**
EML**
ECM
A stealth carrier-based air supremacy fighter. Equipped with experimental weaponry attached to an extremely maneuverable airframes, comprehensive electronic suite, and unbelievably powerful engines, the only true downside is its low stability.
F-5E Tiger II
Cost: 900 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
UGB
HCAA
RKTL
A small fighter aircraft. A low cost, lightweight fighter, it has respectable capabilities in all aspects, with the additional bonus of being easy to fly.
Cost: 900 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
UGB
HCAA
RKTL
A small fighter aircraft. A low cost, lightweight fighter, it has respectable capabilities in all aspects, with the additional bonus of being easy to fly.
BAE Hawk
Cost: 1000 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
QAAM
A fighter aircraft. Originally intended to be a trainer aircraft, this aircraft possess clean controls but lacks large weapons capacity.
Cost: 1000 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
QAAM
A fighter aircraft. Originally intended to be a trainer aircraft, this aircraft possess clean controls but lacks large weapons capacity.
Mig-21bis Fishbed
Cost: 70 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
MGP
RKT
SAAM
A small fighter jet. At least four decades old, this aircraft boasts the record for the most manufactured single jet aircraft; due to its incredible sales numbers, it can achieve incredibly low prices, and vice versa. Unfortunately, the aircraft also shows its age, unable to equip many modern avionics, radars, or weapons period, as well as significantly underperforming more modern airframes.
Cost: 70 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
MGP
RKT
SAAM
A small fighter jet. At least four decades old, this aircraft boasts the record for the most manufactured single jet aircraft; due to its incredible sales numbers, it can achieve incredibly low prices, and vice versa. Unfortunately, the aircraft also shows its age, unable to equip many modern avionics, radars, or weapons period, as well as significantly underperforming more modern airframes.
F15E Strike Eagle
Cost: 2400 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
6AAM
SFFS
TLS*
4AGM
SAAM
QAAM
A multirole strike aircraft. A variant of the F-15C Eagle, the F-15E Strike Eagle is equally capable of conducting air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. Without compromising the F-15C's strong air-to-air capabilities, the F-15E vastly enhances air-to-ground abilities, becoming a powerful contender in all aspects.
Cost: 2400 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
6AAM
SFFS
TLS*
4AGM
SAAM
QAAM
A multirole strike aircraft. A variant of the F-15C Eagle, the F-15E Strike Eagle is equally capable of conducting air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. Without compromising the F-15C's strong air-to-air capabilities, the F-15E vastly enhances air-to-ground abilities, becoming a powerful contender in all aspects.
F-16C Fighting Falcon
Cost: 1700 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
4AAM
GPB
SASM
HCAA
QAAM
A low-weight fighter. Developed from the F-16's original purpose as a lightweight close-range dogfighter, the F-16C Fighting Falcon has since grown to become equally lethal in both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, without becoming significantly higher cost.
Cost: 1700 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
4AAM
GPB
SASM
HCAA
QAAM
A low-weight fighter. Developed from the F-16's original purpose as a lightweight close-range dogfighter, the F-16C Fighting Falcon has since grown to become equally lethal in both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, without becoming significantly higher cost.
J35J Draken
Cost: 1100 IC
Special Weapons:
SAAM
UGB
RCL
HVAA
A delta-wing fighter aircraft. Its usage of the double delta wing was innovative for its time, allowing it STOL, Mach 2, and respectable low-speed manueverability capabilities.
Cost: 1100 IC
Special Weapons:
SAAM
UGB
RCL
HVAA
A delta-wing fighter aircraft. Its usage of the double delta wing was innovative for its time, allowing it STOL, Mach 2, and respectable low-speed manueverability capabilities.
F-2A Viper Zero
Cost: 2000 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
LASM
HVAA
RKT
UGB
A low-weight multirole aircraft. Based upon the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the F-2A Viper Zero specializes in anti-ship warfare. In accordance with its new mission, the internal electronics, materials, and overall wing size have been greatly changed.
Cost: 2000 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
LASM
HVAA
RKT
UGB
A low-weight multirole aircraft. Based upon the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the F-2A Viper Zero specializes in anti-ship warfare. In accordance with its new mission, the internal electronics, materials, and overall wing size have been greatly changed.
F20A Tigershark
Cost: 1500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
SAAM
GPB
XAGM
A lightweight fighter. Developed to succeed the F-5E and compete with the F-16C Fighting Falcon, this plane boasts a very short aircraft startup time, and its modern engine provides a great advantage over the F-5E's outdated twin engines. Despite its age, it retains excellent maneuvering and handling.
Cost: 1500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
SAAM
GPB
XAGM
A lightweight fighter. Developed to succeed the F-5E and compete with the F-16C Fighting Falcon, this plane boasts a very short aircraft startup time, and its modern engine provides a great advantage over the F-5E's outdated twin engines. Despite its age, it retains excellent maneuvering and handling.
Gripen E
Cost: 2100 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
SASM
6AAM
LACM
A lightweight multirole fighter. Featuring a larger body, a retrofitted large-thrust engine, advanced avionics, and more, it is a clear advancement over the Gripen C which it replaces.
Cost: 2100 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
SASM
6AAM
LACM
A lightweight multirole fighter. Featuring a larger body, a retrofitted large-thrust engine, advanced avionics, and more, it is a clear advancement over the Gripen C which it replaces.
Mig-29A Fulcrum
Cost: 1000 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
HPAA
LAGM
4AAM
QAAM
SAAM
A mid-level air superiority fighter. Meant to contest the F-16C Fighting Falcon, the Mig-29A Fulcrum eventually ended up shifting more towards an air-to-ground role, though it remains strong in air-to-air combat.
Cost: 1000 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
HPAA
LAGM
4AAM
QAAM
SAAM
A mid-level air superiority fighter. Meant to contest the F-16C Fighting Falcon, the Mig-29A Fulcrum eventually ended up shifting more towards an air-to-ground role, though it remains strong in air-to-air combat.
Su-27 Flanker-B
Cost: 1300 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
SAAM
QAAM
4AAM
UGB
SFFS
A large air superiority fighter. Developed to compete with the F-15 Eagle, the Flanker's powerful engine and refined airframe gives it excellent mobility.
Cost: 1300 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
SAAM
QAAM
4AAM
UGB
SFFS
A large air superiority fighter. Developed to compete with the F-15 Eagle, the Flanker's powerful engine and refined airframe gives it excellent mobility.
Su-30M2 Flanker-F2
Cost: 1700 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
HPAA
4AGM
4AAM
A multirole fighter. It features retrofitted avionics, a vertical tail wing, and enhanced air-to-ground weaponry. Sol Squadron's plane of choice.
Cost: 1700 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
HPAA
4AGM
4AAM
A multirole fighter. It features retrofitted avionics, a vertical tail wing, and enhanced air-to-ground weaponry. Sol Squadron's plane of choice.
Su-37 Terminator
Cost: 2500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
HPAA
4AAM
TLS*
HVAA
4AAM
QAAM
SASM
ODMM
A multipurpose fighter. Highly agile, it is an improvement over the canard-equipped Su-27M, thanks to its thrust-vectoring nozzles.
Cost: 2500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
HPAA
4AAM
TLS*
HVAA
4AAM
QAAM
SASM
ODMM
A multipurpose fighter. Highly agile, it is an improvement over the canard-equipped Su-27M, thanks to its thrust-vectoring nozzles.
Tornado F3
Cost: 1400 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
XMAA
SAAM
A swing-wing twin engine air superiority fighter. Its fuselage is extended from the original Tornado GR.1 to accomodate multiple target radars.
Cost: 1400 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
XMAA
SAAM
A swing-wing twin engine air superiority fighter. Its fuselage is extended from the original Tornado GR.1 to accomodate multiple target radars.
X-29A
Cost: 2800 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
QAAM
SAAM
HPAA
An air superiority fighter. Its forward swept wings and canards allow it superior maneuverability, at the expense of stability. It is the first forward swept wing aircraft to be capable of supersonic flight.
Cost: 2800 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
QAAM
SAAM
HPAA
An air superiority fighter. Its forward swept wings and canards allow it superior maneuverability, at the expense of stability. It is the first forward swept wing aircraft to be capable of supersonic flight.
AFTI F-16 Agile Falcon
Cost: 2200 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
4AAM
UGB
SASM
HCAA
QAAM
A fighter aircraft. Designed with the F-16 as a base, the AFTI F-16 Agile Falcon only adds canards and some improved avionics, though the mainline fighter has since surpassed it.
Cost: 2200 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
4AAM
UGB
SASM
HCAA
QAAM
A fighter aircraft. Designed with the F-16 as a base, the AFTI F-16 Agile Falcon only adds canards and some improved avionics, though the mainline fighter has since surpassed it.
F-15 S/MTD
Cost: 3600 IC
Carrier Capable: No
Special Weapons:
SAAM
LAGM
FAEB
XMAA
An experimental air superiority fighter. Designed to demonstrate thrust-vectoring technology's effect on existing airframes, the F-15 S/MTD features canards and thrust-vectoring to add to an already maneuverable F-15 airframe, giving the F-15 S/MTD remarkable agility for its size and weight.
Cost: 3600 IC
Carrier Capable: No
Special Weapons:
SAAM
LAGM
FAEB
XMAA
An experimental air superiority fighter. Designed to demonstrate thrust-vectoring technology's effect on existing airframes, the F-15 S/MTD features canards and thrust-vectoring to add to an already maneuverable F-15 airframe, giving the F-15 S/MTD remarkable agility for its size and weight.
F-15SE Silent Eagle
Cost: 3600 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
QAAM
GPB
HPAA
XAGM
An experimental air superiority fighter. Featuring an internal weapons bay and stealth capabilities, the F-15SE is an attack aircraft with increased stealth capabilities with a lesser pricetag.
Cost: 3600 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
QAAM
GPB
HPAA
XAGM
An experimental air superiority fighter. Featuring an internal weapons bay and stealth capabilities, the F-15SE is an attack aircraft with increased stealth capabilities with a lesser pricetag.
AFTI F-15 Agile Eagle
Cost: 3600 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
6AAM
SAAM
QAAM
A fighter aircraft. Built from an F-15 base, the AFTI F-15 Agile Eagle sports segmented wings like the AFTI F-4, giving an able dogfighter the ability to go blow for blow with the best and come out on top.
Cost: 3600 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
6AAM
SAAM
QAAM
A fighter aircraft. Built from an F-15 base, the AFTI F-15 Agile Eagle sports segmented wings like the AFTI F-4, giving an able dogfighter the ability to go blow for blow with the best and come out on top.
JAS-39 Gripen New Generation
Cost: 2500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
RCL
LASM
LRAA
A multirole fighter. An improved variant on the Gripen C, this aircraft performs each of its subspecialties well.
Cost: 2500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
RCL
LASM
LRAA
A multirole fighter. An improved variant on the Gripen C, this aircraft performs each of its subspecialties well.
Rafale M
Cost: 4100 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
HCAA
LACM
LAAM
SOD
LASM
A multirole aircraft. Capable of carrier operation, its long-range capabilities make it a terrifying adversary at long range, and its maneuverability gives it daunting close-range combat.
Cost: 4100 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
HCAA
LACM
LAAM
SOD
LASM
A multirole aircraft. Capable of carrier operation, its long-range capabilities make it a terrifying adversary at long range, and its maneuverability gives it daunting close-range combat.
Su-35 Super Flanker
Cost: 1800 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
XLAA
UGB
A fighter aircraft. Adding canards and superior avionics to the already exceptionally agile Su-27, the resulting aircraft is truly deserving of the moniker "Super Flanker".
Cost: 1800 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
XLAA
UGB
A fighter aircraft. Adding canards and superior avionics to the already exceptionally agile Su-27, the resulting aircraft is truly deserving of the moniker "Super Flanker".
Su-35S Flanker-E
Cost: 2300 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
LAAM
6AAM
LASM
QAAM
A fighter aircraft. Designed to succeed the Su-27 Flanker-B, the Su-35S integrates the lessons of the Su-35 into the mainline, and then upgrades those capabilities even further, to create a Flanker to surpass all Flankers.
Cost: 2300 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
LAAM
6AAM
LASM
QAAM
A fighter aircraft. Designed to succeed the Su-27 Flanker-B, the Su-35S integrates the lessons of the Su-35 into the mainline, and then upgrades those capabilities even further, to create a Flanker to surpass all Flankers.
Su-30SM
Cost: 2500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weaponry:
6AAM
QAAM
LAGM
A multirole fighter. Based on the Su-30, the Su-30SM features thrust vectoring nozzles, canards, and modern avionics, giving the Su-30SM nearly unparrelled mobility in the hands of an equally unparalleled expert.
Cost: 2500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weaponry:
6AAM
QAAM
LAGM
A multirole fighter. Based on the Su-30, the Su-30SM features thrust vectoring nozzles, canards, and modern avionics, giving the Su-30SM nearly unparrelled mobility in the hands of an equally unparalleled expert.
MiG-35 Fulcrum-F
Cost: 2400 IC
Carrier Capable: No
Special Weapons:
6AAM
QAAM
LAGM
GRKT
PLSL*
A state-of-the-art version of the MiG-29 produced largely in response to equally modernized F-16 variants. First revealed at the Verusean Federation Freedom Exposition in 2007. Versions with thrust vectoring and carrier capability are allegedly under production, but the Yuktobanian government has said nothing.
Cost: 2400 IC
Carrier Capable: No
Special Weapons:
6AAM
QAAM
LAGM
GRKT
PLSL*
A state-of-the-art version of the MiG-29 produced largely in response to equally modernized F-16 variants. First revealed at the Verusean Federation Freedom Exposition in 2007. Versions with thrust vectoring and carrier capability are allegedly under production, but the Yuktobanian government has said nothing.
Su-47 Berkut
Cost: 2500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
SAAM
UGB
QAAM
An experimental forward-swept wing fighter. With its extreme manueverability, cutting edge avionics, and superior air-to-air weaponry, this plane is without equal in a dogfight.
Cost: 2500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
SAAM
UGB
QAAM
An experimental forward-swept wing fighter. With its extreme manueverability, cutting edge avionics, and superior air-to-air weaponry, this plane is without equal in a dogfight.
Typhoon
Cost: 2500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
LAAM
8AGM
HCAA
SAAM
SASM
RCL
A fighter aircraft. A combination of close-coupled delta canards and delta wings provide excellent aerodynamic capabilities, while its excellent fire control system allows it to texcel at air combat against multiple targets. The sum of these two strengths results in a plane aptly named the "Typhoon".
Cost: 2500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
LAAM
8AGM
HCAA
SAAM
SASM
RCL
A fighter aircraft. A combination of close-coupled delta canards and delta wings provide excellent aerodynamic capabilities, while its excellent fire control system allows it to texcel at air combat against multiple targets. The sum of these two strengths results in a plane aptly named the "Typhoon".
F-24 Saqr
Cost: 3400 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
4AAM
SASM
HCAA
QAAM
A fighter aircraft. Built as an alternative to the F-35 and as a successor to the F-16, it lacks the offensive power of the F-35, the carrier capability, or the optimized production lines; it was supposed to be cheaper than the F-35, but lack of funding meant that the costs have continued to be relatively large.
Cost: 3400 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
4AAM
SASM
HCAA
QAAM
A fighter aircraft. Built as an alternative to the F-35 and as a successor to the F-16, it lacks the offensive power of the F-35, the carrier capability, or the optimized production lines; it was supposed to be cheaper than the F-35, but lack of funding meant that the costs have continued to be relatively large.
F-32 Aquila
Cost: 4000 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
SOD
4AAM
4AGM
SAAM
LASM
QAAM
A multirole carrier craft. Designed as a competitor to the F-35 Lightning II, its problems with integration and avionics ultimately resulted in devestatingly poor international sales; as a result, its sales never managed to fully recoup the costs of development.
Cost: 4000 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
SOD
4AAM
4AGM
SAAM
LASM
QAAM
A multirole carrier craft. Designed as a competitor to the F-35 Lightning II, its problems with integration and avionics ultimately resulted in devestatingly poor international sales; as a result, its sales never managed to fully recoup the costs of development.
Mitsubishi X-2 Shinshin
Cost: 4200 IC
Carrier Capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
LASM
XSDB
LAAM
QAAM
4AAM
An experimental aircraft with 3D thrust vectoring and impressive high angle-of-attack flight granting it one of the highest degrees of maneuverability among fifth-generation fighters. However, the prototype entered the market after the F-22, which had significantly superior stealth, and concurrently with the F-35, which ended up being significantly cheaper, spelling doom for the project.
Cost: 4200 IC
Carrier Capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
LASM
XSDB
LAAM
QAAM
4AAM
An experimental aircraft with 3D thrust vectoring and impressive high angle-of-attack flight granting it one of the highest degrees of maneuverability among fifth-generation fighters. However, the prototype entered the market after the F-22, which had significantly superior stealth, and concurrently with the F-35, which ended up being significantly cheaper, spelling doom for the project.
Bae Systems Replica
Cost: 4500 IC
Carrier Capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
HCAA
LAAM
SASM
LASM
GPBL
An experimental aircraft developed by North Point as a stealth multirole fighter, to replace the aging Tornado. Much like the YF-23, importance was put primarily on low observability. It was ultimately passed on by North Point for the F-35, but it was still produced in small numbers.
Cost: 4500 IC
Carrier Capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
HCAA
LAAM
SASM
LASM
GPBL
An experimental aircraft developed by North Point as a stealth multirole fighter, to replace the aging Tornado. Much like the YF-23, importance was put primarily on low observability. It was ultimately passed on by North Point for the F-35, but it was still produced in small numbers.
Mig 1.44 Flatpack
Cost: 2500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
QAAM
UGB
4AAM
RCL
SOD
XMAA
An experimental multirole aircraft. Its large canards and thrust-vectoring nozzles give it notable manueverability.
Cost: 2500 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
QAAM
UGB
4AAM
RCL
SOD
XMAA
An experimental multirole aircraft. Its large canards and thrust-vectoring nozzles give it notable manueverability.
F22A Raptor
Cost: 5000 IC
Carrier capable: No (no, mission 20 doesn't count)
Special Weapons:
QAAM
XSDB
8AAM
4AAM
SASM
SOD
A stealth air superiority fighter. The F-22A Raptor is the go-to example for what an air superiority fighter should look like: the absolute ability to obliterate an enemy that cannot possibly respond. It is strongest when fighting from long range, but that does not remotely mean that it is weak in close-range combat.
Cost: 5000 IC
Carrier capable: No (no, mission 20 doesn't count)
Special Weapons:
QAAM
XSDB
8AAM
4AAM
SASM
SOD
A stealth air superiority fighter. The F-22A Raptor is the go-to example for what an air superiority fighter should look like: the absolute ability to obliterate an enemy that cannot possibly respond. It is strongest when fighting from long range, but that does not remotely mean that it is weak in close-range combat.
Su57
Cost: 4900 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
4AAM
GPB
PLSL*
QAAM
A stealth air superiority fighter. Built as an answer to the F-22A Raptor, the Su-57 features stealth capabilities, advanced radar, and the thrust-vectoring nozzles required for supermanueverability.
Cost: 4900 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
4AAM
GPB
PLSL*
QAAM
A stealth air superiority fighter. Built as an answer to the F-22A Raptor, the Su-57 features stealth capabilities, advanced radar, and the thrust-vectoring nozzles required for supermanueverability.
YF 23 Black Widow II
Cost: 4900 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
HVAA
4AAM
UGB
SAAM
SASM
An experimental stealth aircraft. Built primarily for stealth capabilities, the YF-23 trades off close range capabilities for even better long-range capabilities than the F-22A Raptor.
Cost: 4900 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
HVAA
4AAM
UGB
SAAM
SASM
An experimental stealth aircraft. Built primarily for stealth capabilities, the YF-23 trades off close range capabilities for even better long-range capabilities than the F-22A Raptor.
ADFX-01 MORGAN
Cost: 17000IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
TLS*
MPBM*
ECMP
A prototype fighter. The original superplane, it possesses incredible capabilities in all aerial aspects. Canards and forward swept wings give it nigh-unmatched maneuverability, especially for its size. The one area that it is lacking in is stealth, and in the stealth era that spelled doom for potential mass-manufacture.
Cost: 17000IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
TLS*
MPBM*
ECMP
A prototype fighter. The original superplane, it possesses incredible capabilities in all aerial aspects. Canards and forward swept wings give it nigh-unmatched maneuverability, especially for its size. The one area that it is lacking in is stealth, and in the stealth era that spelled doom for potential mass-manufacture.
F-22 Spiral 7 ALTAIR
Cost: N/A
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
8AAM
QAAM
8AGM
LASM
TLS*
MPSL*
ECMP
A prototype fighter. Only deployed in the Raikalan Election Dispute, it appears to have been a single-production run aircraft. Only superficially similar to the F-22 base, its additional canards and segmented wings give an already tremendously capable dogfighter frankly unbelievable manueverability, along with an avionics systems that far surpasses the Raptor and powerful e-warfare capabilities to add insult to injury. The only two shortcomings of this plane appear to be its increased stealth profile, and the fact that another one was never made after the first was destroyed.
Cost: N/A
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
8AAM
QAAM
8AGM
LASM
TLS*
MPSL*
ECMP
A prototype fighter. Only deployed in the Raikalan Election Dispute, it appears to have been a single-production run aircraft. Only superficially similar to the F-22 base, its additional canards and segmented wings give an already tremendously capable dogfighter frankly unbelievable manueverability, along with an avionics systems that far surpasses the Raptor and powerful e-warfare capabilities to add insult to injury. The only two shortcomings of this plane appear to be its increased stealth profile, and the fact that another one was never made after the first was destroyed.
F-4E Phantom
Cost: 600 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
UGB
LAGM
SASM
QAAM
A multirole fighter aircraft. It is one of the first carrier-capable aircraft, and although it is aged, it still holds many records and maintains an impressive battle record.
Cost: 600 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
UGB
LAGM
SASM
QAAM
A multirole fighter aircraft. It is one of the first carrier-capable aircraft, and although it is aged, it still holds many records and maintains an impressive battle record.
F-4X Super Phantom
Cost: 1000 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
XMAA
XLAA
A fighter aircraft. An improvement over the F-4E Phantom, the F-4X Super Phantom has a greatly improved powerplant, enabling the Super Phantom to reach blistering speeds. The airframe has been reinforced as a necessary consequence, but special weapons were a low priority for this plane.
Cost: 1000 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
XMAA
XLAA
A fighter aircraft. An improvement over the F-4E Phantom, the F-4X Super Phantom has a greatly improved powerplant, enabling the Super Phantom to reach blistering speeds. The airframe has been reinforced as a necessary consequence, but special weapons were a low priority for this plane.
AFTI F-4 Agile Phantom
Cost: 1600 IC
Carrier Capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
XMAA
QAAM
A fighter aircraft. The AFTI F-4 Agile Phantom boasts segmented maneuverable wings, along with the F-4X's superior engine, to create a highly manueverable fighter aircraft, capable of dogfighting modern planes favorably. However, its avionics remains outdated, limiting its special weapons loadout.
Cost: 1600 IC
Carrier Capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
XMAA
QAAM
A fighter aircraft. The AFTI F-4 Agile Phantom boasts segmented maneuverable wings, along with the F-4X's superior engine, to create a highly manueverable fighter aircraft, capable of dogfighting modern planes favorably. However, its avionics remains outdated, limiting its special weapons loadout.
F-104C Starfighter
Cost: 50 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
SAAM
GRKT
HPAA
A multirole interceptor aircraft. A slim, supersonic interceptor, the C-variant is equipped with ground munitions. Its thrusters and small profile allow it to fly at speeds comparable to modern fighters, but its turning radius is wide, even among interceptors.
Cost: 50 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
SAAM
GRKT
HPAA
A multirole interceptor aircraft. A slim, supersonic interceptor, the C-variant is equipped with ground munitions. Its thrusters and small profile allow it to fly at speeds comparable to modern fighters, but its turning radius is wide, even among interceptors.
Mig 31B Foxhound
Cost: 2000 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
LAAM
SAAM
PLSL*
An interceptor aircraft. Featuring an unmatched top speed, incredibly high performance ceiling, and long range missiles, the Foxhound is a dangerous long-range interceptor, loaded with the latest avionics.
Cost: 2000 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
LAAM
SAAM
PLSL*
An interceptor aircraft. Featuring an unmatched top speed, incredibly high performance ceiling, and long range missiles, the Foxhound is a dangerous long-range interceptor, loaded with the latest avionics.
Mirage 2000-5
Cost: 800 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
GPB
4AAM
LASM
SFFS
A multirole aircraft. Designed as an evolution of the Mirage 2000, the Mirage 2000-5 wields its light weight and delta wings to achieve good balance and maneuverability at high speeds.
Cost: 800 IC
Carrier capable: No
Special Weapons:
GPB
4AAM
LASM
SFFS
A multirole aircraft. Designed as an evolution of the Mirage 2000, the Mirage 2000-5 wields its light weight and delta wings to achieve good balance and maneuverability at high speeds.
MQ-99
Cost: 400 IC
Carrier capable: No, but container-capable
Special Weapons:
A modern drone fighter. Free from the constraints of keeping the pilot alive, the MQ-99 drones are programmed to be able to endure massive g-loads when maneuvering, allowing the aircraft to draw the maximum potential from the airframe.
Cost: 400 IC
Carrier capable: No, but container-capable
Special Weapons:
A modern drone fighter. Free from the constraints of keeping the pilot alive, the MQ-99 drones are programmed to be able to endure massive g-loads when maneuvering, allowing the aircraft to draw the maximum potential from the airframe.
MQ-101
Cost: 600 IC
Carrier capable: No, Arsenal Bird-capable
Special Weapons:
An unmanned combat aircraft. Featuring a folded wing design for easier compatibility with the Arsenal Birds, these drones boast even greater maneuverability than the MQ-99 drones, and will not hesitate to sacrifice themselves to protect a target, preventing engagement of targets from all but the very shortest of ranges.
Cost: 600 IC
Carrier capable: No, Arsenal Bird-capable
Special Weapons:
An unmanned combat aircraft. Featuring a folded wing design for easier compatibility with the Arsenal Birds, these drones boast even greater maneuverability than the MQ-99 drones, and will not hesitate to sacrifice themselves to protect a target, preventing engagement of targets from all but the very shortest of ranges.
AV-8B Harrier II+
Cost: 900 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
4AGM
RKTL
LASM
A VTOL attacker aircraft. Designed to be usable on light aircraft carriers and small airfields.
Cost: 900 IC
Carrier capable: Yes
Special Weapons:
4AGM
RKTL
LASM
A VTOL attacker aircraft. Designed to be usable on light aircraft carriers and small airfields.
A10C Thunderbolt II
Mirage F-1
F-117 Nighthawk
Su-25 Frogfoot
Su-34 Fullback
Tornado GR.4
FB-22 Strike Raptor
EA-6B Prowler
EA-18G Growler
Tornado ECR
*EML, PLSL, TLS, ADMM, and the MPBM are all experimental superlative weapon systems, so it should be noted that sometimes installing these weapon systems will cost more than the plane itself.
Voting is obviously extended for a day, at least.
Long Caster is at 130 Focus.
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IUN-PKF-XCOM Briefing on Nations as of January 1st, 2020
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
In any case, vote closed, in favor of Plan Bridge To Peace. Preliminary Countries Briefing today; tomorrow will be the rest of the results, as well as...
Well, in any case, feel free to discuss anything you want clarification about; I'm willing to give you a bit of slack with regards to answering questions here.
man making these briefings takes a lot out of me
Well, in any case, feel free to discuss anything you want clarification about; I'm willing to give you a bit of slack with regards to answering questions here.
Kingdom of Nordennavic
Nordennavic is located on the northwest of the Anean continent, near the North Pole. As a result, much of the country is nearly permanently encased in ice, especially in the wake of the 1994XF04 Ulysses Disaster. Nordennavic's economy is greatly buoyed by its thriving machine industry, although its status as a net-food importer has Nordennavic constantly wary. Diplomatically, Nordennavic has remained staunchly neutral for centuries, and insists on having a military only for self-defensive purposes.
Recently, it has absorbed many refugees over the course of the past decade, and has considered joining the Republic of Anea initiative, only to break apart when Emmerian and Estovakian tensions have boiled over.
The King of Nordennavic attaches a note:
"Make the aliens pay for attacking us."
General Stats:
Nordennavic is located on the northwest of the Anean continent, near the North Pole. As a result, much of the country is nearly permanently encased in ice, especially in the wake of the 1994XF04 Ulysses Disaster. Nordennavic's economy is greatly buoyed by its thriving machine industry, although its status as a net-food importer has Nordennavic constantly wary. Diplomatically, Nordennavic has remained staunchly neutral for centuries, and insists on having a military only for self-defensive purposes.
Recently, it has absorbed many refugees over the course of the past decade, and has considered joining the Republic of Anea initiative, only to break apart when Emmerian and Estovakian tensions have boiled over.
The King of Nordennavic attaches a note:
"Make the aliens pay for attacking us."
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 15,000
- 5,000 supporting population, quality of life
- 10,000 available
- Energy Production: 70,000
- 40,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 5,000 supporting Population Quality of Life
- 5,000 available
- Population (Est.): 5,000,000
- Quality of Life: High
- Degree of Support: 6/10
- Militarism: 7/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
- Macmillan Heavy Industries
Republic of Emmeria
Emmeria is located on the western side of the Anean continent, close to the North Pole. Officially titled the Republic of Emmeria, it was founded in the mid 1500s by King Aurelius II. Between its natural highlands and high latitude, much of the land is barely fit for human habitation; the regions that are, however, is Anea's best breadbaskets. Naturally, this resulted in Emmeria becoming the preeminent superpower on the Anean continent, boasting a world-class economy and high-living standards throughout. Emmeria's economy is sustained through its wide variety of economic activities and trade. Emmeria's armed forces are considered in a class of their own with regards to combined arms doctrine, if not nearly the size of Osean or Yuktobanian militaries.
One of the primary proponents of the Republic of Anea initiative, Emmeria withdrew due to Estovakian aggression.
Having recently won the Emmerian-Estovakian War in 2015-2016, Emmeria's economy has largely been focused on internal rebuilding and supporting the Estovakian civilian government.
General Stats:
Emmeria is located on the western side of the Anean continent, close to the North Pole. Officially titled the Republic of Emmeria, it was founded in the mid 1500s by King Aurelius II. Between its natural highlands and high latitude, much of the land is barely fit for human habitation; the regions that are, however, is Anea's best breadbaskets. Naturally, this resulted in Emmeria becoming the preeminent superpower on the Anean continent, boasting a world-class economy and high-living standards throughout. Emmeria's economy is sustained through its wide variety of economic activities and trade. Emmeria's armed forces are considered in a class of their own with regards to combined arms doctrine, if not nearly the size of Osean or Yuktobanian militaries.
One of the primary proponents of the Republic of Anea initiative, Emmeria withdrew due to Estovakian aggression.
Having recently won the Emmerian-Estovakian War in 2015-2016, Emmeria's economy has largely been focused on internal rebuilding and supporting the Estovakian civilian government.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 90,000
- 80,000 supporting population, quality of life
- 10,000 available
- Energy Production: 450,000
- 360,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 80,000 supporting Population quality of life
- 10,000 available
- Population (Est.): 80,000,000
- Quality of Life: High
- Degree of Support: 5/10
- Militarism: 4/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
- Talisman, a SS-tier ace.
- Emmerian Combined Arms Doctrine
Federal Republic of Estovakia
Estovakia is located on the eastern side of the Anean continent. Officially titled the Federal Republic of Estovakia, Estovakia has undergone much political turmoil recently. With even more of its land occupied by naturally mountainous terrain, Estovakia has even less habitable territory than Emmeria. However, absent any major disasters, Estovakia would have survived. Ulysses 1994XF04's Anean fragments obliterated that dream, destroying much of Estovakia's government and infrastructure. In the ensuing chaos, Estovakia broke out into near total warlordism for a period of seven to eight years, by which point in 2007 established military factions began to form in the ruins of Estovakia. However, these factions soon turned on themselves and began another grueling six or seven year long civil war, before finally unifying under the Eastern Front lead by the military junta of the Generals.
In 2015-2016, they conducted a war against Emmeria which they very nearly won before being utterly routed by the Garuda Team's Talisman.
Since then, Estovakia has been recuperating from nearly two straight decades of nigh-universal war footing in an incredibly harsh environment.
General Stats:
Estovakia is located on the eastern side of the Anean continent. Officially titled the Federal Republic of Estovakia, Estovakia has undergone much political turmoil recently. With even more of its land occupied by naturally mountainous terrain, Estovakia has even less habitable territory than Emmeria. However, absent any major disasters, Estovakia would have survived. Ulysses 1994XF04's Anean fragments obliterated that dream, destroying much of Estovakia's government and infrastructure. In the ensuing chaos, Estovakia broke out into near total warlordism for a period of seven to eight years, by which point in 2007 established military factions began to form in the ruins of Estovakia. However, these factions soon turned on themselves and began another grueling six or seven year long civil war, before finally unifying under the Eastern Front lead by the military junta of the Generals.
In 2015-2016, they conducted a war against Emmeria which they very nearly won before being utterly routed by the Garuda Team's Talisman.
Since then, Estovakia has been recuperating from nearly two straight decades of nigh-universal war footing in an incredibly harsh environment.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 10,000
- 6,000 supporting population, quality of life
- 3,000 available
- Energy Production: 50,000
- 40,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 9,000 supporting population quality of life
- 1,000 available
- Population (Est.): 15,000,000
- Quality of Life: Low
- Degree of Support: 1/10
- Militarism: 1/10
- Alien Support: 1/10
- Destroyed Superweapon Chandelier
- Albastru-Electrice
Osean Federation
Osea is located in central Osea. Officially titled the Osean Federation, Osea is one of the two strongest nations in the world, boasting both an economy and military with only a single peer. Spanning much of the Northern Hemisphere, Osea has nearly every clime imaginable within its borders, and has the population to match; moreover, most of its citizenry enjoy an extremely high standard of living on top of Osea's incredibly strong Defense Forces. It is a federal presidential republic. As one of the main underwriters of the IUN project, and especially the IUN-PKF, they have high hopes for you; the Long Range Strategic Strike Group is and was an Osean force to begin with.
The capital of Oured was also struck in the recent alien attack.
General Stats:
Osea is located in central Osea. Officially titled the Osean Federation, Osea is one of the two strongest nations in the world, boasting both an economy and military with only a single peer. Spanning much of the Northern Hemisphere, Osea has nearly every clime imaginable within its borders, and has the population to match; moreover, most of its citizenry enjoy an extremely high standard of living on top of Osea's incredibly strong Defense Forces. It is a federal presidential republic. As one of the main underwriters of the IUN project, and especially the IUN-PKF, they have high hopes for you; the Long Range Strategic Strike Group is and was an Osean force to begin with.
The capital of Oured was also struck in the recent alien attack.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 855,000
- 800,000 supporting population, quality of life
- 40,000 supporting Osean Special Projects
- 15,000 available
- Energy Production: 4,425,000
- 3,420,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 800,000 supporting Population quality of life
- 160,000 supporting Osean Special Projects
- 30,000 supporting Osean Allies
- 15,000 available
- Population (Est.): 800,000,000
- Quality of Life: High
- Degree of Support: 7/10
- Militarism: 6/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
- Grunder Industries
- Basset Space Center
- ???
Democratic People's Republic of Leasath
LOCKED EARLY GAME due to ongoing coup by General Diego Gaspar Navarro
The Democratic People's Republic of Leasath, or Leasath for short, is currently undergoing a civil war as a result of a total economic collapse. Located near the tropical regions south of Osea, Leasath's fertile lands can support a significant population, but the current economic collapse and civil war has left the vast majority of its population poor and destitute.
General Stats:
LOCKED EARLY GAME due to ongoing coup by General Diego Gaspar Navarro
The Democratic People's Republic of Leasath, or Leasath for short, is currently undergoing a civil war as a result of a total economic collapse. Located near the tropical regions south of Osea, Leasath's fertile lands can support a significant population, but the current economic collapse and civil war has left the vast majority of its population poor and destitute.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 20,000
- 12,000 supporting population quality of life
- 8,000 supporting ???
- Energy Production: 125,000
- 80,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 28,000 supporting population quality of life
- 17,000 supporting ???
- Population (Est.): 35,000,000
- Quality of Life: Low
- Degree of Support: 1/10
- Militarism: 8/10
- Alien Support: 1/10
- Special Assets:
- ???
Federal Republic of Aurelia
Aurelia, officially titled the Federal Republic of Aurelia, is located on the southern tip of the Osean continent. It is rich in natural resources and as a result, enjoys a disproportionate prosperity relative to its size. Aurelia employs a modestly-sized military mostly equipped with top-of-the-line equipment, and is one of the leading researchers in the cutting edge field of particle research.
Recently attacked, they suffered massive casualties but were able to drive off the aliens, albeit they retreated in good order. In the engagement, two fighters distinguished themselves: Falco 1 and Gryphus 1.
General Stats:
Aurelia, officially titled the Federal Republic of Aurelia, is located on the southern tip of the Osean continent. It is rich in natural resources and as a result, enjoys a disproportionate prosperity relative to its size. Aurelia employs a modestly-sized military mostly equipped with top-of-the-line equipment, and is one of the leading researchers in the cutting edge field of particle research.
Recently attacked, they suffered massive casualties but were able to drive off the aliens, albeit they retreated in good order. In the engagement, two fighters distinguished themselves: Falco 1 and Gryphus 1.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 35,000
- 30,000 supporting population quality of life
- 5,000 available
- Energy Production: 205,000
- 140,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 60,000 supporting population
- 5,000 available
- Population (Est.): 30,000,000
- Quality of Life: High
- Degree of Support: 5/10
- Militarism: 5/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
- Special Assets:
- Biggest Aluminum supply
- Cyclone Accelerators research
- Falco 1 - a S tier ace
- Gryphus 1 - a S tier ace
Principality of Belka
Belka, or the Principality of Belka, is located in central Osea, bordering the Osean Federation to the east. A once-mighty industrial nation, the economic collapse of early 1990s and the Belkan War of 1995 brought the Principality of Belka low; stripped of its rich territories and an international pariah for being the only user of nuclear weapons on their own soil, Belka has made clear that it holds the rest of the world in as much disdain as the rest of world holds for it, and that Belka is perfectly comfortable holding grudges until the other party is dead. In the intervening two decades, the Belkan diaspora has rightly and wrongly received reputations for being malicious schemers, but also for an incredible technical capability.
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Belka, or the Principality of Belka, is located in central Osea, bordering the Osean Federation to the east. A once-mighty industrial nation, the economic collapse of early 1990s and the Belkan War of 1995 brought the Principality of Belka low; stripped of its rich territories and an international pariah for being the only user of nuclear weapons on their own soil, Belka has made clear that it holds the rest of the world in as much disdain as the rest of world holds for it, and that Belka is perfectly comfortable holding grudges until the other party is dead. In the intervening two decades, the Belkan diaspora has rightly and wrongly received reputations for being malicious schemers, but also for an incredible technical capability.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 65,000
- 50,000 supporting population quality of life
- 15,000 supporting ???
- Energy Production: 330,000
- 260,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 55,000 supporting population quality of life
- 15,000 supporting ???
- Population (Est.): 70,000,000
- Quality of Life: Medium
- Degree of Support: 0/10
- Militarism: 5/10
- Alien Support: 3/10
- Special Assets:
- Superweapon Wreck Excalibur
- V2
- Only uranium mines in the world
Federation of Aboriginal Tribes of Osea
FATO, or the Federation of Aboriginal Tribes of Osea, is located towards eastern Osea, bordering Belka to the west and the Nordland Confederacy to the east. Originally consisting of indigineous tribal nations who by strokes of good fortune managed to industrialize at a pace sufficient to keep up with would-be colonizers attacking into mountainous terrain, FATO has become an established power to be reckoned with; it was not until the Belkan War of 1995 that FATO truly found itself unable to resist Belkan advances.
In the intervening years, FATO has focused on internal development, as well as closer diplomatic relations with the other eastern Osean nations to better secure FATO's interests against Osea and Yuktobania.
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FATO, or the Federation of Aboriginal Tribes of Osea, is located towards eastern Osea, bordering Belka to the west and the Nordland Confederacy to the east. Originally consisting of indigineous tribal nations who by strokes of good fortune managed to industrialize at a pace sufficient to keep up with would-be colonizers attacking into mountainous terrain, FATO has become an established power to be reckoned with; it was not until the Belkan War of 1995 that FATO truly found itself unable to resist Belkan advances.
In the intervening years, FATO has focused on internal development, as well as closer diplomatic relations with the other eastern Osean nations to better secure FATO's interests against Osea and Yuktobania.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 32,000
- 30,000 supporting population quality of life
- 2,000 available
- Energy Production: 160,000
- 128,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 30,000 supporting population quality of life
- 2,000 available
- Population (Est.): 30,000,000
- Quality of Life: High
- Degree of Support: 2/10
- Militarism: 3/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
- Special Assets:
- Only economical source of lithium in the world.
Kingdom of Gebet
Gebet, officially titled the Kingdom of Gebet, was spun off from Belka's eastern territories in 1988. It is landlocked on all sides, surrounded by Recta to the south, Wielvak to the east, Belka to the west, and FATO to the north. In 1995, Gebet was reoccupied as part of the Belkan War, but was soon liberated; since then, the Kingdom of Gebet has focused on cultivating a stable trading partnership between Recta and FATO to the north and south, as well as a general effort to deepen ties with other eastern Osean nations.
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Gebet, officially titled the Kingdom of Gebet, was spun off from Belka's eastern territories in 1988. It is landlocked on all sides, surrounded by Recta to the south, Wielvak to the east, Belka to the west, and FATO to the north. In 1995, Gebet was reoccupied as part of the Belkan War, but was soon liberated; since then, the Kingdom of Gebet has focused on cultivating a stable trading partnership between Recta and FATO to the north and south, as well as a general effort to deepen ties with other eastern Osean nations.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 30,000
- 27,000 supporting population quality of life
- 3,000 available
- Energy Production: 150,000
- 120,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 25,000 supporting population quality of life
- 5,000 available
- Population (Est.): 35,000,000
- Quality of Life: Medium
- Degree of Support: 1/10
- Militarism: 2/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
Republic of Recta
Recta, or Republic of Recta, was formed in 1988 during Belka's relinquishing of eastern territories; however, a strong current of Rectan independence has been charted from all the way back from 1970. It is a landlocked country, surrounded by Belka to the north and west, Ustio to the southwest, Ratio to the south, Wielvak to the east, and Gebet to the north. Since its indepedence, it has focused on internal development and vying for the position of political center-of-gravity among the eastern Osean nations.
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Recta, or Republic of Recta, was formed in 1988 during Belka's relinquishing of eastern territories; however, a strong current of Rectan independence has been charted from all the way back from 1970. It is a landlocked country, surrounded by Belka to the north and west, Ustio to the southwest, Ratio to the south, Wielvak to the east, and Gebet to the north. Since its indepedence, it has focused on internal development and vying for the position of political center-of-gravity among the eastern Osean nations.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 20,000
- 18,000 supporting population quality of life
- 2,000 available
- Energy Production: 101,000
- 80,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 20,000 supporting population quality of life
- 5,000 available
- Population (Est.): 30,000,000
- Quality of Life: Medium
- Degree of Support: 1/10
- Militarism: 1/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
Republic of Ratio
Ratio is a country on the eastern seaboard of Osea. Officially titled Republic of Ratio, it is bordered by Sapin to the south and west, Ustio to the west, Recta to the north, and Wielvakia to the north. With sea access, the Republic of Ratio is one of the stronger partners in the eastern Osean grouping; however, points of contention still exist between Ratio and Ustio over Ratio grabbing Ustio's eastern territories in 1991.
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Ratio is a country on the eastern seaboard of Osea. Officially titled Republic of Ratio, it is bordered by Sapin to the south and west, Ustio to the west, Recta to the north, and Wielvakia to the north. With sea access, the Republic of Ratio is one of the stronger partners in the eastern Osean grouping; however, points of contention still exist between Ratio and Ustio over Ratio grabbing Ustio's eastern territories in 1991.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 40,000
- 38,000 supporting population quality of life
- 2,000 available
- Energy Production: 200,000
- 160,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 39,000 supporting population quality of life
- 1,000 available
- Population (Est.): 42,000,000
- Quality of Life: Medium
- Degree of Support: 2/10
- Militarism: 3/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
Republic of Ustio
Ustio, officially titled Republic of Ustio, is a landlocked country formed when Belka spun off its eastern territories in 1988. As one of the primary belligerents in the 1995 Belkan War, the Ustian's hired Galm Team single-handedly turned the tide of the Belkan War in favor of the Allied Forces, including Ustio. Ustio's economy, however, remains largely agricultural and craftsman-based; startlingly little has changed in the intervening three decades between its formation and the present day. Diplomatically, it seeks closer ties with the rest of the Allied Forces in the Belkan conflict, but also seeks to become part of the nascent eastern Osean group.
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Ustio, officially titled Republic of Ustio, is a landlocked country formed when Belka spun off its eastern territories in 1988. As one of the primary belligerents in the 1995 Belkan War, the Ustian's hired Galm Team single-handedly turned the tide of the Belkan War in favor of the Allied Forces, including Ustio. Ustio's economy, however, remains largely agricultural and craftsman-based; startlingly little has changed in the intervening three decades between its formation and the present day. Diplomatically, it seeks closer ties with the rest of the Allied Forces in the Belkan conflict, but also seeks to become part of the nascent eastern Osean group.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 16,000
- 14,000 supporting population quality of life
- 2,000 available
- Energy Production: 85,000
- 64,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 20,000 supporting population quality of life
- 1,000 available
- Population (Est.): 20,000,000
- Quality of Life: Medium
- Degree of Support: 2/10
- Militarism: 2/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
Kingdom of Sapin
Sapin, or Kingdom of Sapin, is located on the Spring Sea, and the eastern seaboard of Osea. During the events of the Belkan economic collapse, Sapin expanded to include former Belkan territories, which Belka immediately claimed when it destroyed the Sapinish air force and put Sapin to retreat. After Sapin formed a coalition with Osea, Ustio, and Yuktobania to push back Belka, Sapin ended up reclaiming all the territory it had claimed from Belka. Since then Sapin has focused on building closer relationships with other eastern Osean countries to form a bloc.
As one of the most prosperous countries in the hypothetical bloc, Sapin is very likely to end up the political center of the bloc.
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Sapin, or Kingdom of Sapin, is located on the Spring Sea, and the eastern seaboard of Osea. During the events of the Belkan economic collapse, Sapin expanded to include former Belkan territories, which Belka immediately claimed when it destroyed the Sapinish air force and put Sapin to retreat. After Sapin formed a coalition with Osea, Ustio, and Yuktobania to push back Belka, Sapin ended up reclaiming all the territory it had claimed from Belka. Since then Sapin has focused on building closer relationships with other eastern Osean countries to form a bloc.
As one of the most prosperous countries in the hypothetical bloc, Sapin is very likely to end up the political center of the bloc.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 50,000
- 46,000 supporting population quality of life
- 4,000 available
- Energy Production: 250,000
- 200,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 46,000 supporting population quality of life
- 4,000 available
- Population (Est.): 46,000,000
- Quality of Life: High
- Degree of Support: 2/10
- Militarism: 1/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
Wielvakia
Wielvakia is an eastern Osean country bordered by the Nordlands to the northeast, FATO to the north, Gebet to the northwest, Recta to the west, Ratio to the south, and the Spring Sea to the east. As one of the preeminent neutral parties in the Belkan War, Wielvakia was brought in to arbitrate the Lumen treaties; since then, Wielvakia has focused on capitalizing on its diplomatic reputation to begin forming the eastern Osean groups, and especially to become closer with the Nordlands.
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Wielvakia is an eastern Osean country bordered by the Nordlands to the northeast, FATO to the north, Gebet to the northwest, Recta to the west, Ratio to the south, and the Spring Sea to the east. As one of the preeminent neutral parties in the Belkan War, Wielvakia was brought in to arbitrate the Lumen treaties; since then, Wielvakia has focused on capitalizing on its diplomatic reputation to begin forming the eastern Osean groups, and especially to become closer with the Nordlands.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 45,000
- 42,000 supporting population quality of life
- 3,000 available
- Energy Production: 220,000
- 180,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 38,000 supporting population quality of life
- 2,000 available
- Population (Est.): 43,000,000
- Quality of Life: Medium
- Degree of Support: 4/10
- Militarism: 3/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
Confederation of Nordlands
The Nordlands, officially titled the Confederation of the Nordlands, is located on the eastern coast of Osea, bordering the Spring Sea to the east, and FATO and Wielvakia to the west. Also called in as a neutral nation in the Lumen treaty negotiation, unlike Wielvakia the Confederation has focused on internal development and bringing its people up to a high standard of living.
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The Nordlands, officially titled the Confederation of the Nordlands, is located on the eastern coast of Osea, bordering the Spring Sea to the east, and FATO and Wielvakia to the west. Also called in as a neutral nation in the Lumen treaty negotiation, unlike Wielvakia the Confederation has focused on internal development and bringing its people up to a high standard of living.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 42,000
- 38,000 supporting population quality of life
- 4,000 available
- Energy Production: 210,000
- 168,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 38,000 supporting population quality of life
- 4,000 available
- Population (Est.): 38,000,000
- Quality of Life: High
- Degree of Support: 8/10
- Militarism: 7/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
Democratic Federation of Wellow
Wellow, officially titled the Democratic Federation of Wellow, is a scrupulously neutral nation in much the same tradition as Nordennavic; originally picked to host the G7 conference in 2007, the G7 conference was ultimately canceled due to a terrorist attack in a nearby bay.
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Wellow, officially titled the Democratic Federation of Wellow, is a scrupulously neutral nation in much the same tradition as Nordennavic; originally picked to host the G7 conference in 2007, the G7 conference was ultimately canceled due to a terrorist attack in a nearby bay.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 500
- 500 supporting population quality of life
- 0 available
- Energy Production: 3000
- 2000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 500 supporting population quality of life
- 500 available
- Population (Est.): 50,000
- Quality of Life: High
- Degree of Support: 1/10
- Militarism: 1/10
- Alien Support: 1/10
Erusea
LOCKED EARLY GAME due to state of total warlordism and communications breakdown; the Erusean federal government has effectively totally ceased to exist.
LOCKED EARLY GAME due to state of total warlordism and communications breakdown; the Erusean federal government has effectively totally ceased to exist.
Gunther Bay Emergency Administration
The Gunther Bay Emergency Administration is a "government" largely funded by foreign aid and designed to distribute aid and house refugees in the Gunther Bay Area; formally it does not exist, and is largely held together on Rosa Cossette D'Elise's raw charisma.
Consists of International Space Elevator, Selatapura City, and surrounding area.
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The Gunther Bay Emergency Administration is a "government" largely funded by foreign aid and designed to distribute aid and house refugees in the Gunther Bay Area; formally it does not exist, and is largely held together on Rosa Cossette D'Elise's raw charisma.
Consists of International Space Elevator, Selatapura City, and surrounding area.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 10,000
- 8,000 supporting population quality of life
- 2,000 available
- Energy Production: 100,000,000
- 20,000 supporting population quality of life
- 40,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- The rest supporting lmao do whatever the fuck you want man
- Population (Est.): 20,000,000
- Quality of Life: Low
- Degree of Support: 9/10
- Militarism: 3/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
- Tyler Island Space Launch Site
- Artificial Wonder International Space Elevator Lighthouse
- Provides 100,000 power to any installation capable of receiving microwave power.
- Provides one-way radio communication to the 150 and 30 degree lines.
- Rosa Cossette D'Elise
Republic of Voslage
Formed as part of the rebellions that arose out of Erusea's total governmental collapse during the Lighthouse War, the Republic of Voslage broke off from Erusea as part of the popular will, and even now prepares to fight a two-way civil war for the right to exist.
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Formed as part of the rebellions that arose out of Erusea's total governmental collapse during the Lighthouse War, the Republic of Voslage broke off from Erusea as part of the popular will, and even now prepares to fight a two-way civil war for the right to exist.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 15,000
- 8,000 supporting population quality of life
- 7,000 available
- Energy Production: 75,000
- 60,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 10,000 supporting population quality of life
- 5,000 available
- Population (Est.): 15,000,000
- Quality of Life: Medium
- Degree of Support: 1/10
- Militarism: 7/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
- Special Assets:
- Shilage Castle
- Sol Squadron
Erusean Restoration Forces
The Erusean Restoration Forces seek to restore the Erusean country, conquests and all, while become the dominant power in Erusean politics by destroying the Free Erusean Remnants.
Consists of Erusean Conservatives, runs most of country
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The Erusean Restoration Forces seek to restore the Erusean country, conquests and all, while become the dominant power in Erusean politics by destroying the Free Erusean Remnants.
Consists of Erusean Conservatives, runs most of country
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 25,000 (75,000)
- 20,000 supporting population quality of life
- 5,000 available
- Energy Production: 125,000
- 100,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 25,000 supporting population quality of life
- Population (Est.): 55,000,000
- Quality of Life: Low
- Degree of Support: 1/10
- Militarism: 7/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
- Special Assets:
- Drone Factory Remnants
Free Erusean Remnants
The Free Erusean Remnants consist of the radicals within the Erusean military that still exist, along with whatever they could scrounge up.
Consists of (remaining) Erusean Radicals still holding out
General Stats:
The Free Erusean Remnants consist of the radicals within the Erusean military that still exist, along with whatever they could scrounge up.
Consists of (remaining) Erusean Radicals still holding out
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 15,000 (45,000)
- 8,000 supporting population quality of life
- 7,000 available
- Energy Production: 75,000
- 60,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 10,000 supporting population quality of life
- 5,000 available
- Population (Est.): 30,000,000
- Quality of Life: Low
- Degree of Support: 0/10
- Militarism: 7/10
- Alien Support: 1/10
- Special Assets:
- Drone Factory Remnants
Commonwealth of Usean States
The Commonwealth of Usean States, located across Central and Southern Usea, is a collective bargaining organization for Usean states as a whole when negotiating on the IUN. Recovering from the aftershocks of the Lighthouse War, some of whom's side effects include destroying the microwave transmission systems for a short while requiring a fairly significant period to properly retool the Usean Industry.
The constituent states of the Commonwealth have ultimately fought nearly three wars in two decades: the Usean uprising, Continental War, and the Lighthouse War. Each has left its scar on the Usean populace.
Also, in San Salvacion, Stonehenge awaits.
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The Commonwealth of Usean States, located across Central and Southern Usea, is a collective bargaining organization for Usean states as a whole when negotiating on the IUN. Recovering from the aftershocks of the Lighthouse War, some of whom's side effects include destroying the microwave transmission systems for a short while requiring a fairly significant period to properly retool the Usean Industry.
The constituent states of the Commonwealth have ultimately fought nearly three wars in two decades: the Usean uprising, Continental War, and the Lighthouse War. Each has left its scar on the Usean populace.
Also, in San Salvacion, Stonehenge awaits.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 210,000 (450,000)
- 200,000 supporting population quality of life
- 10,000 available
- Energy Production: 1,040,000
- 840,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 200,000 supporting population quality of life
- Population (Est.): 400,000,000
- Quality of Life: Medium
- Degree of Support: 5/10
- Militarism: 3/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
- Stonehenge Ruins
United Kingdoms of North Point
North Point, or the United Kingdoms of North Point, is an island nation off the northeastern short of Usea. Maintaining a steadfast neutral and isolationist policy, North Point once commanded a respectable military, but has slowly seen its military subsumed by the ISAF and IUN forces, throughout the Continental War and Lighthouse War. It maintains a respectable, if not remarkable industry for its size.
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North Point, or the United Kingdoms of North Point, is an island nation off the northeastern short of Usea. Maintaining a steadfast neutral and isolationist policy, North Point once commanded a respectable military, but has slowly seen its military subsumed by the ISAF and IUN forces, throughout the Continental War and Lighthouse War. It maintains a respectable, if not remarkable industry for its size.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 34,000
- 30,000 supporting population quality of life
- 4,000 available
- Energy Production: 170,000 (temporary)
- 136,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 30,000 supporting population quality of life
- 4,000 available
- Population (Est.): 30,000,000
- Quality of Life: High
- Degree of Support: 4/10
- Militarism: 5/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
- Fortified Base Fortress Intolerance
- SS/SSR tier ace Mobius One, the Ribbon Fighter
Commonan Commonwealth
Comona, or the Commonan Commonwealth, or the Comona Islands is less a central government and more a series of islands shrugging and deciding to adopt the moniker to promote their cooperation. Possessing formidable aerospace capabilities, the Comona Islands industry is largely based around tourism and the space launch sites the Comonas possess.
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Comona, or the Commonan Commonwealth, or the Comona Islands is less a central government and more a series of islands shrugging and deciding to adopt the moniker to promote their cooperation. Possessing formidable aerospace capabilities, the Comona Islands industry is largely based around tourism and the space launch sites the Comonas possess.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 1,500
- 1,000 supporting population quality of life
- 500 available
- Energy Production: 7,500
- 6,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 1,000 supporting population quality of life
- 500 available
- Population (Est.): 1,000,000
- Quality of Life: High
- Degree of Support: 2/10
- Militarism: 2/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
- Comona Island Observatories
- Comona Space Launch Site
Sotoan Treaty Organization
Sotoa, or the Sotoan Treaty Organization, is a group formed in the late-1960s formed to counteract the perceived-growing threat of the Union of Yuktobanian Republics. Located in western Verusa, it possesses a large population and equally large industry, but largely focuses on military buildup to counteract the hypothetical threat of the Yuktobanian invasion. Not even the result of the 2003 Raikala Election Verification Incident has deterred Sotoan caution; if anything, it has heightenend the Sotoan's caution and paranoia.
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Sotoa, or the Sotoan Treaty Organization, is a group formed in the late-1960s formed to counteract the perceived-growing threat of the Union of Yuktobanian Republics. Located in western Verusa, it possesses a large population and equally large industry, but largely focuses on military buildup to counteract the hypothetical threat of the Yuktobanian invasion. Not even the result of the 2003 Raikala Election Verification Incident has deterred Sotoan caution; if anything, it has heightenend the Sotoan's caution and paranoia.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 250,000
- 240,000 supporting population quality of life
- 10,000 available
- Energy Production: 1,200,000
- 1,000,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 195,000 supporting population quality of life
- 5,000 available
- Population (Est.): 300,000,000
- Quality of Life: Medium
- Degree of Support: 1/10
- Militarism: 1/10
- Alien Support: 1/10
Union of Yuktobanian Republics
Yuktobania, or the Union of Yuktobanian Republics is located on the eastern and central parts of the Verusan continent. Its economic and military might is matched only by Osea, but its diplomatic efforts have not been met with anywhere near the same amount of effect. However, the Yuktobanians are cautioning you to act as per your charter and not the suggestions of the Oseans, else they may need to find an organization which will provide for the common defense.
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Yuktobania, or the Union of Yuktobanian Republics is located on the eastern and central parts of the Verusan continent. Its economic and military might is matched only by Osea, but its diplomatic efforts have not been met with anywhere near the same amount of effect. However, the Yuktobanians are cautioning you to act as per your charter and not the suggestions of the Oseans, else they may need to find an organization which will provide for the common defense.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 700,000
- 650,000 supporting population quality of life
- 30,000 Yuktobanian Special Projects
- 20,000 available
- Energy Production: 3,580,000
- 2,800,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 700,000 supporting population quality of life
- 50,000 Yuktobanian Special Projects
- 30,000 available
- Population (Est.): 700,000,000
- Quality of Life: Medium
- Degree of Support: 4/10
- Militarism: 8/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
- Albatross Squadron?
People's Republic of Kaluga
Kaluga, or the People's Republic of Kaluga, is located on the border of bay between Yuktobania, the Sotoan Treaty Organization, and the Verusan Federation. With significant portions of its military and economic capabilites destroyed in the Raikala incident, Kaluga has veen focused on mobilizing more and more, with no end in sight.
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Kaluga, or the People's Republic of Kaluga, is located on the border of bay between Yuktobania, the Sotoan Treaty Organization, and the Verusan Federation. With significant portions of its military and economic capabilites destroyed in the Raikala incident, Kaluga has veen focused on mobilizing more and more, with no end in sight.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 50,000
- 30,000 supporting population
- 15,000 ???
- Energy Production: 230,000
- 200,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 20,000 supporting population
- 10,000 ???
- Population (Est.): 50,000,000
- Quality of Life: Low
- Degree of Support: 1/10
- Militarism: 2/10
- Alien Support: 1/10
Verusan Federation
Verusa, officially titled the Verusan Federation, is a collection of Verusan states that decided to preemptively unify as a result of the Tyumen and Raikala Disputes, to present a unified front during negotiations. Delicately attempting to manage the balancing act between Yuktobania and the Sotoan Treaty Organization occupies the majority of the Verusan's political efforts; the rest largely goes into internal development.
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Verusa, officially titled the Verusan Federation, is a collection of Verusan states that decided to preemptively unify as a result of the Tyumen and Raikala Disputes, to present a unified front during negotiations. Delicately attempting to manage the balancing act between Yuktobania and the Sotoan Treaty Organization occupies the majority of the Verusan's political efforts; the rest largely goes into internal development.
General Stats:
- Industrial Capacity: 370,000
- 365,000 supporting population quality of life
- 5,000 available
- Energy Production: 1,882,000
- 1,480,000 supporting Industrial Capacity
- 400,000 supporting population quality of life
- 2,000 available
- Population (Est.): 400,000,000
- Quality of Life: Medium
- Degree of Support: 4/10
- Militarism: 7/10
- Alien Support: 0/10
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